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Rational Quote of the Day

tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
"Science sees the order which pervades the seeming disorder of the world; the great drama of evolution, with its full share of pity and terror, but also with abundant goodness and beauty."

Thomas Huxley​
 
DarkSun

DarkSun

:eltiT
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!"
Alexander Pope
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."

- Mark Twain-​
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

 Georgia Harkness
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DarkSun

DarkSun

:eltiT
"The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unreason and falsehood – particularly in those cases where the falsehood evokes more enjoyable emotions or where the appeal to unreason strikes some answering chords in the primitive subhuman depths of our being.”
- Aldous Huxley; A Brave New World -
 
DarkSun

DarkSun

:eltiT
''You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they’re not what you met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change, they deny, they contradict--and they call it growth. At the end there’s nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass.''
-The Fountainhead; Ayn Rand-
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
[FONT=arial,helvetica]A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.[/FONT]
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[FONT=arial,helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica]Eric Hoffer[/FONT]​
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.”


Lemuel K. Washburn

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tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
"A man with conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point."

Leon Festinger
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Orias

Orias

Left Hand Path
"He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in One false principal is the beginning of all unwisdom."-Anton LaVey
 
Orias

Orias

Left Hand Path
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. "-Albert Einstein


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tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.


Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1798​
 
DarkSun

DarkSun

:eltiT
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God." - Epicurus
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.​
 
Gjallarhorn

Gjallarhorn

N'yog-Sothep
"The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven."
- Nicholas Yee
 
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