“The tools of reason are cold and inert; they cannot be used to form the foundations of those values from which we become animate. So when contemporary philosophers, scientists, politicians, and even the common man attempt to justify their beliefs based on reason alone, they are ultimately doomed to fail in their efforts. Science and logic are powerful tools of excavation to uncover facts, but at the depths of the canyon from which they dig, the question of why will always echo back to them.” ReasonScienceFaithBelief Author:Tanner Cook
“Do not feel compelled to justify your faith through reason and logic; these are only instruments used to rationalize your passions. But these tools are cold and lifeless. Any passion that can be thoroughly justified with them cannot contain within it any signs of life. And the more one tries to reason-out their passion, the more one drains the life-force from it.” ReasonFaithPassion Book:Sons of Liberty: Manifesto Source: Sons of Liberty: Manifesto
“But am I satisfied to know merely the structure of the rainbow and how it came to be? Is that why I gaze upon it; with thoughts of refraction and wave frequency? Am I better off, now that I know this celestial arch isn’t divinely inspired – that there isn’t some meaningful purpose to it? Is that truly the answer I wanted when I asked myself where this spectacle came from? Do I stare up at the night sky because I search for the elements that comprise the star? Do we rationalize the tears that are shed at the birth of a child and the death of a loved-one? Do we ask ourselves why we dance? Do we contemplate that question before we allow the music to stir us? Do we allow it at all, or does it allow us? Not a single note, by itself, compels a couple to gracefully embrace, yet, this is how they would have us understand it - music, merely a series of connected notes and nothing more.” GodFaithMaterialism Book:Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian Source: Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian