“Everything that's worth anything in the world has been achieved by the inquiring mind full of questions, not by those full of rituals and prejudice.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Reason, not faith. Good deeds, not faith. Knowledge, not faith. In these signs we shall triumph.”
Source: Evangelical Protestants: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
“Reason is "man's imitation of divinity.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy
“Much as we advocate a Logos world, we don’t want to kill off Mythos – because we would kill off our own humanity if we did so. It’s all about getting the balance right. We must have a rational society, but with plenty of scope for Mythos exploration, fantasy and fun. Society must be run according to rationality, but our vital recreational time must be all about feeling, narrative, communication and fun.”
Source: The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos
“There’s always a reason for a delay in life, and these delays aren’t always bad. There’s times the Lord is rearranging your life, or even your endeavor, so when the time comes you’re best suited, and prepared to enjoy what you’ve accomplished.”
“Once you accept mathematics as reality, you immediately see that everything has a sufficient reason, an explanation and answer, and you are part of the cosmic machinery of providing all of these answers. You yourself are an essential node of the calculation.”
Source: What Is Mathematics?: The Greatest Detective Story Never Told
“It’s up to Illuminists alone. No one else is coming. We are against everyone. We are enormously outnumbered and surrounded, yet victory is certain to be ours ... because we are the Gnostic Legion of Reason and Knowledge, and we shall command the cosmic forces that can defeat any odds.”
Source: Contra Mundum
“Only the extremely strong – those who don’t care what others think – can take an interest in unpopular memes: the truth memes, the Logos memes. Our world has a very simple set up. Emotionally powerful memes are enormously more successful and popular than intellectually powerful memes. The whole of human fate – everything about humanity, the entirety of human history – is bound to that single fact.”
Source: The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos
“God” is mathematics, and mathematics is simply the principle of sufficient reason. Absolutely everything happens for a specific reason. There is nothing at all that is random and indeterministic. If any such things were possible, the universe would instantly unravel into absolute chaos where order, organisation and pattern were all impossible.”
Source: The Mathematical Universe
“Freedom is not the purpose, it's the path.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism