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wisdom thinking somewhere-else
Richard Dawkins I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.
wisdom cards dice
Richard Baxter You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
wisdom prayer giving
Reinhold Niebuhr God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.
wisdom religious allies
Reinhold Niebuhr The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
wisdom doubt orthodoxy
Reinhold Niebuhr Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
wisdom knowledge knowing
Woody Allen Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
wisdom fowl righteous
Woody Allen Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
wisdom married immortal
William Wordsworth Wisdom married to immortal verse.
philosophy analysis technique
Albion W. Small Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
philosophy mean thinking
William Ralph Inge Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
philosophy darkness fiction
Anton LaVey Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!
philosophy math ideas
Richard P. Feynman What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. ... If we are told that the same experiment will always produce the same result, that is all very well, but if when we try it, it does not, then it does not. We just have to take what we see, and then formulate all the rest of our ideas in terms of our actual experience.
philosophy special way
Richard P. Feynman A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy . However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.
philosophy mean knowing
Richard P. Feynman Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
philosophy science engineering
Richard P. Feynman Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
philosophy science astrology
Richard Dawkins Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
philosophy duty
Richard Whately knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
reality guilt satanic
Anton LaVey Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith...
reality matter tone
Robert Creeley No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.
reality games levels
Rob Enderle The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.
reality luxury phones
Rob Conway Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.
reality feelings conflict
Richard P. Feynman The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.
reality shadow substance
Richard Whately Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
reality ugly want
Richelle Mead It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.
reality people photograph
Richard Avedon The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
reality doors stage
Russell Hoban If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.