It has been a long while since we did this and today we shall quote my favourite philosopher.
Truth will have no Gods before it.—The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
Nietzsche in Ecce Homo
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Truth has no time for gods, gods need their ego stroked.
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Truth is dangerous to the gods
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Doubt can’t be the starting point of our beliefs.the father of methodic doubt left us a Cartesian problem which will forever be cyclic.
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Doubt can’t be the starting point of our beliefs but without doubt we can’t learn anything.
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What does God think of truth, I wonder? 😉
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If there are any gods, I don’t think they care about truth
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When a person begins to explore truth, the fallacy of myths collapses. Good quote today, my Nairobi brother. I hope you are good.
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I am doing great my friend. Hope you too are enjoying your vacation.
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A compliment:
“Facts are facts. They are enormously discourteous. They do not revere old books, they do not stand in awe before old beliefs. They do not bow before famous ancestors. They are simply the stuff out of which reality is made and the final judge of truth” (Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine)
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Brilliant!
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I like that one – it’s going on my fridge door!
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He was a good man, a champion of truth. Died, tragically, in a car accident in 2007.
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Good one. Put this in my list of favorite quotes. Perhaps you meant complement rather than compliment?
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Yeah, that certainly looks better 🙂
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“If we have dignity, we do not run away from the truth. We do not turn the world into a reflection of our fantasies….We strive for knowledge. We weigh our beliefs on the scales of evidence.” also Rabbi Sherwin T Wine.
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Brilliant quote, Holly. Is that from A Provocative People?
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Yes. Thanks for the bread crumbs that led me there. 😉
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You’re very much welcome! He was an impressive man in possession of an amazing mind, and I very much like his successor (and former student), Rabbi Chalom.
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I am so glad to have found him. I will have to check out Chalom as well.
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I’ll see your Rabbi Wine and raise you a Buddha:
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Then allow me to add a thought for further discussion:
“Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.” Victor Hugo
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum
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Two more for good measure… 😉
“Many people will not tolerate a state of doubt, either because they will not endure the mental discomfort of it or because they regard it as evidence of inferiority.To be genuinely thoughtful, we must be willing to sustain and protract that state of doubt which is the stimulus to thorough inquiry, so as not to accept an idea or make a positive assertion of a belief, until justifying reasons have been found”~John Dewey.
“While imagination is the source of inspiration in seeking new knowledge, it can also be dangerous if not subjected to discipline; a fertile imagination needs to be balanced by criticism and judgment. This is, of course, quite different from saying it should be repressed or crushed. The imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge that we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Things not clearly seen often take on grotesque forms. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair.” Carl Sagan
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Excellent, Holly – both.
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This quote of Buddha should be put on every door- school, church and house of legislation especially
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Brilliant
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“Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s blunders?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche —
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God is man’s blunder
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Great quote Mak! 😀
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