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The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word — Sam Harris
Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or f — Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. — Sam Harris
On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, t — Stephen R. Prothero, God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the trut — Reinhold Niebuhr, Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History
Principles are only tools in the hands of God they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious auth — Adebowale Ojowuro, Echoes of Common Sense
By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished — C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened fr — C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all y — Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
It is recorded in the monastic rules that a monk once performed an abortion on a girl; the Buddha judged his action seri — Soraj Hongladarom, Genomics and Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Technologies and Advancements
But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about one of the — Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flouri — Saaif Alam
We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any gi — Christopher Langan
Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logic — Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy
For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of th — Stefan Molyneux
Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful. — Eraldo Banovac