„To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.“
The Crisis No. V
Quelle: 1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Thomas Paine3
Schriftsteller und Erfinder 1737 - 1809Ähnliche Zitate
— George Holmes Howison American philosopher 1834 - 1916
Quelle: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Right Relation of Reason to Religion, p.260
— Martin Esslin Playwright, theatre critic, scholar 1918 - 2002
Introduction : The absurdity of the Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd (1961)
Kontext: The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being — that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart — the difference between theory and experience.
— James Burgh British politician 1714 - 1775
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
Kontext: Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, "when I looked for light, then came darkness." Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
„An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.“
— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
Though Sheen is quoted as saying this in Look magazine (14 December 1955) the earliest located declaration of this witticism was by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir on 21 February 1936: "I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support."
Misattributed
— Ethan Allen American general 1738 - 1789
Quelle: Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784), Ch. IV Section I - Speculation on the Doctrine of the Depravity of Human Reason
— Jean Jacques Rousseau, buch Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes
Quelle: The Social Contract
— Martin Heidegger German philosopher 1889 - 1976
Interview (23 September 1966), published posthumously in Der Spiegel (31 May 1976), as translated by Maria P. Alter and John D. Caputo in The Heidegger Controversy : A Critical Reader (1991), edited by Richard Wolin.
Kontext: Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the time of foundering [Untergang] for in the face of the god who is absent, we founder. Only a God Can Save Us.
— Roy A. Childs, Jr. American libertarian essayist and critic 1949 - 1992
“The Contradiction in Objectivism,” 1968
— Eden ahbez American songwriter and recording artist 1908 - 1995
Tape recording to Joe Romersa (1992)
Shadowbox Studio
— James Bovard American journalist 1956
From Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin's Press, 1999) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigram%20page%20Freedom%20in%20Chains.htm
„Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.“
— Michael Bishop American writer 1945
Quelle: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 11, “Usurpation: Two Meteors, Prodigal of Light” (p. 196)
— Alfred Stillé, buch The Essentials of the Art of Medicine
The Essentials of the Art of Medicine. 1897. p 26.
— John Dickinson American politician 1732 - 1808
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)
— Eric Voegelin American philosopher 1901 - 1985
Eric Voegelin (1999), Science, Politics, and Gnosticism in The Collected Works, Vol. 5: Modernity Without Restraint, edited by Manfred Henningsen, , p. 273.
Kontext: Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.
