“The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?” KnowsSeemsUniverseAsksBeliefModernProductsBirthArgumentRationalModern ScienceDiffusion Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
“The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.” PeopleShouldHumansMayFactsMoralSourceBirthGayArgumentWeightInsightBe GoodAbortionDisgustingGay MarriageUnreliableIrrationalityCloningAgainst Gay MarriageHuman Cloning Author:Paul Bloom
“I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongFactsFeelingsRealizingCreationBirthArgumentOriginalsCriticsPartnersObjectivesThink Of MeStarlight Author:Lady Gaga
“As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.” WritingFirstsSaidTodayKnownClassStruggleIssuesBirthPagesRacismMouthsArgumentThreatFeministToleranceBetrayWarfareBeatenAccusedStandpointClass StrugglePoignantClass WarfareAnti RacismBeing Accused Author:Alice Schwarzer
“In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that issue. "You are trying to deviate us from our way of life, our traditions." And of course the argument they give is that these traditions date back to before our birth, and actually they accuse us of being funded by the outside world to subvert their way of life.” WorldGivingTryingBirthArgumentTraditionTaboo Author:Ousmane Sembene
“I think what hinders the argument is when people are afraid of hurting the feelings of racists and people who are genuinely - some of them - out of their minds. They demand to see Obama's birth certificate. They claim that he wants to kill our grandparents with his health care. They want to be able to carry their guns into every public place. Why do we need to coddle these people?” PeopleThinkingMindFeelingsCareHurtBirthGunArgumentHealth CareRacistGrandparentHinder Author:Janeane Garofalo
“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.” DoeWinningGrowthBornEnvironmentMysteryBirthArgumentBoringOur EnvironmentSimplify Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has to be proved. That God Almighty has to be proved. That Christ as a son of God has to be proved, that His birth as immaculate conception has to be proved. Not by argument, not by reasoning, nor by blind faith but by actualization on your central nervous system.” LoveBelieveWisdomSpiritChristMeditationDivineSonBirthYogaArgumentBlindNervousReasoningWellnessConceptionAlmightyNervous SystemBlind FaithImmaculateActualizationCentral Nervous SystemImmaculate Conception Author:Nirmala Srivastava