“There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.” PeoplePersonsEnoughNamesBeliefDifferencesMoralTypeCallingIdealsSakeProtestCriticizeOffendedResortsOpen MindedTheologicalBigotsScholarlyUninformedName CallingZealotMoral Beliefs Author:Criss Jami
“Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for making the recommended bet on his particular faith are reasons in the sense of motives rather than reasons in the sense of grounds. Conceding, if only for the sake of the present argument, that we can have no knowledge here, Pascal tries to justify as prudent a policy of systematic self-persuasion, rather than to provide grounds for thinking that the beliefs recommended are actually true.” IfsThinkingTryingSelfReasonShowsBeliefAtheismPolicyParticularArgumentSakePositive AtheismMotiveJustifyCatholicismPersuasionFlewSystematicPrudentRoman CatholicPascal Author:Antony Flew
“My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.” SelfWholeLawIndividualBeliefTheoryDisciplineFundamentalsSakeImprovementSelf ControlSocial ChangeOrdinances Author:Ida Tarbell
“I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantChildrenI CanIdeasLawCoursesBeliefSoundApproachAreasArgumentSacredSakeBotherLogicalParenthoodUnusualGood IdeasCultAttackingPolicemenUntouchablesLogical Arguments Author:George Carlin
“Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.” FeelsWellsFeelingsTodayBeliefChallengesSakeLove SomeoneStrangling Author:Andrew Bernstein
“I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.” IfsThinkingBelieveMeanBeliefExampleSakeElectricMonkFutilityEloquent Author:Richard Dawkins