“Death is philosophy’s only problem.”
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Socrates on Life
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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I Don’t Want God to Exist
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithAll of us look at our world and wish a few things didn’t exist. For example, most sane people agree there should be no hunger or war. We’d love to live in a world without cancer. But our world contains the things many of us do not like.
Even atheist Thomas Nagel wishes the world didn’t contain something, or Someone….
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Blaise Pascal on Belief
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
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Lord David Cecil on The Holocaust
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“The jargon of the philosophy of progress taught us to think that the savage and primitive state of man is behind us…. But barbarism is not behind us, it is within us.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Jesus Christ
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”
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The Greeks on The Power of Words
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithTwo Greek orators in the fourth century BC supposedly prompted a cry heard among crowds: “When Isocrates speaks, people say, ‘How well he speaks!’ When Demosthenes speaks, they say, ‘Let’s march.’”