— Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
„But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.“
Quelle: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
René Girard2
französischer Literaturwissenschaftler, Kulturanthropologe … 1923 - 2015Ähnliche Zitate
— Sam Harris American author, philosopher and neuroscientist 1967
Sam Harris, "Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? – William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-the-foundation-of-morality-natural-or-supernatural-the-craig-harris, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States – April 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&t=1m10s
2010s
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor American academic and author 1950
The fight against racism doesn't stop here (2013)
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
„Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.“
— Neil Gaiman, buch Smoke and Mirrors
Cold Colors (p. 239)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
— Neil Kinnock British politician 1942
Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science
Quelle: Interview with Sam Aaronovitch for Marxism Today (June 1983) http://banmarchive.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/83_06_06.pdf
— John Rogers Searle American philosopher 1932
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
Kontext: You need to know enough philosophy so that the methods of logical analysis are available to you to be used as a tool. One of the most depressing things about educated people today is that so few of them, even among professional intellectuals, are able to follow the steps of a simple logical argument.
— Edward de Bono Maltese physician 1933
Quelle: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 159.
— Edward de Bono Maltese physician 1933
Quelle: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 159
„What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?“
— Jules Verne, buch Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A quoi bon discuter une proposition semblable, quand la force peut détruire les meilleurs arguments.
Part I, ch. X: The Man of the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
— Aron Ra Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast 1962
"12th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkY7HrJOhc Youtube (April 19, 2008)
Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
„I am the logic of all arguments - Arguments are of three kinds:“
— Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923 - 2018
1) jalpa (arrogant argument) – In this type of argument one tries to establish one's point of view by contradicting the opponent's argument without considering whether the opponent's argument is right or wrong.
2) vitanda (destructive criticism) – In this type of argument the person simply destroys the opponent's viewpoint by misleading argument.
3) vada (logical argument) – In this type of argument one uses a method of discussion with reasoning with an aim to find out what is truth and what is untruth. Reasoning is the best method of discussion to achieve the truth. This is why the Lord says, “Among arguments, I am vada or logical argument.”
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. VII-XII, 2014
— Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930
Random Thoughts https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2004/12/06/random-thoughts-n996213, Townhall, December 2004.
2000s
„I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer.“
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Kontext: I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer. It is how it is written that makes a book acceptable, as a work of art, or unacceptable and pornographic. There are many books circulating today, for the teen-ager as well as the grown up, which would not have been printed in the fifties. It is still amazing to me that A Wrinkle In Time was considered too difficult for children. My children were seven, ten, and twelve while I was writing it, and they understood it. The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.
— John Twelve Hawks American writer
How We Live Now (2005)
„All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically“
— Steven Weinberg American theoretical physicist 1933
Quelle: Dreams of a Final Theory
„I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
