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atheists god hear smile
When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion. Vincent Bugliosi
atheist claims inference
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. C. S. Lewis
atheist real believe
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
atheist people opiates
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
atheist reading men
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
atheist reading men
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
atheist men different
I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
atheist pseudoscience difficult
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
atheist agnostic there-is-no-god
An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
self giving creation
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
selfish party men
Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with. Cecelia Ahern
self-worth quality gauges
We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other. Carrie Preston
self rooms demon
There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed. Carrie Fisher
self feminist perception
The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated Carl Rogers
self individuality architect
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.
self-esteem people majority
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
self numbers depth
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
self-questioning errors criticism
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.
ideas listen people quickly stronger tough
On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film. Denis Villeneuve
ideas sticks brilliant
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. Cecil Rhodes
ideas needs sometimes
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
ideas jars cookies
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
ideas persons my-own
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.
ideas return becoming
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.
ideas fiction firsts
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.
ideas littles merit
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
ideas numbers world
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.