“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may …
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“Death is philosophy’s only problem.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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I Don’t Want God to Exist
All 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 …
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Blaise Pascal on Belief
“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
“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 …
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Two 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 …