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quotes of note
4 -- 8/15/02
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The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly
related, that it is difficult to class them separately.
One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous,
and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime
again.
Thomas Paine
Age of Reason
In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind
physical forces and genetic replication, some people
are going to get hurt, other people are going to
get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason
in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe
has precisely the properties we should expect if
there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,
no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins
'God's Utility Function', Scientific
American
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being
tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper
down to ourselves.
C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad
people. The good ones slept better...while the bad
ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
Side Effects
Look at what Christ said about sin. The sins of
the flesh. He said that a man who had looked after
a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man
who had seduced her. How absurd! If a man in good
health does not experience some kind of sexual reaction
when he sees an attractive woman, there is something
wrong with him. Paul said some wicked things, but
Christ started it.
Bertrand Russell
An Interview with Kenneth Harris
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming
of that which the wicked man does in actual life.
Plato
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing
of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good
and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conduct of Life
We must also suppose that before that time, the
progress of reason will
have gone hand in hand with progress in the arts
and sciences; that the
ridiculous prejudices of superstition will no longer
cover morality
with an austerity that corrupts and degrades it
instead of purifying and
elevating it. Men will know then that if they have
obligations to beings
who do not yet exist, these obligations do not consist
in giving life,
but in giving happiness. Their object is the general
welfare of the
human species, of the society in which people live,
of the family to which
they belong and not the puerile idea of filling
the earth with useless
and unhappy beings.
Marquis de Condorcet
The Future Progress of the
Human Mind
If the question is asked, what are the most intelligent
and all-round-capable things on earth, the answer
is obvious: human beings. Everyone knows this, except
certain religious people. A person is certainly
a believer in some religion if he thinks, for example,
that there are on
earth millions of invisible and immortal nonhuman
beings which are far more intelligent and capable
than we are. But that is exactly what
sociobiologists do think, about genes. Sociobiology,
then, is a religion: one which has genes as its
gods.
David Stove
A New Religion
If triangles made a god, they would give him three
sides.
Charles de Montesquieu
Lettres Persanes
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method,
and the
quantitative method is the victory of sterility
and death.
Hillaire Belloc
The Silence of the Sea
Architecture in general is frozen music.
Friedrich Schelling
Philosophie der Kunst
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