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common-sense atheism opaque
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. Edward Abbey
common-sense get-better care
If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master. Earl Nightingale
common-sense people atmosphere
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Samuel Butler
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common-sense novelty admiration
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. David Hume
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
atheism atheist consider desire organized people religion sunday
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. Lynn Coady
atheism devil vices
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
atheism superstitions
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Denis Diderot
atheism orthodoxy corpses
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. Elbert Hubbard
atheism metaphor creeds
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
atheism superstitions theology
Theology is Classified Superstition.
atheism earth slave
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
atheism inferiority taught
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
atheism hebrew accepting
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
opaque want spirit
...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Elizabeth Bowen
opaque transparency absolutes
But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Margaret Atwood
opaque
Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves. Jacques Maritain