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“The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.”

Needs Reason Facts Form Faith Easy Knowledge Objects Involved Pure Eternal Historical Indifferent Absurdity Historical Knowledge

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.”

Real Reason Lying Fire Trouble Contradiction Elsewhere Chestnuts

Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

“Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.”

Faith Crime Absurdity Petty Jurists

Book:Philosophical Fragments

Source: Philosophical Fragments

“The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.”

Ifs Doe Ideas Reason God Would Be Courses Impossible Prove Folly Prove It God Exists Demonstrating

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.”

People Ifs Believe Said Belief Opinion Imagine Fool Accounts Hills Indifferent Propose

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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