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«Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
adopt, adopts, fade, fade away, fade out, fading away, infancy, intelligence, left, left over, religion, science, science and religion
«No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.»
Author: Karl Popper
| Keywords:
adopt
«Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.»
«We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
adopt, bemused, craze, crazed, glimpse, selves, spiritual world, standpoint, The Spiritual
«I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views»
«The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic»
«There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level»
«No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
adopt, come upon, cross, lay, patiently, profitable, tribulation, tribulations
«To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death....»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death
| Keywords:
adopt, deprive, frequent, strangeness
«Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
adopt, dislike, morality, personally
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