“When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the painting says, indeed what the artist is shrieking at the top of his voice, is that life has become empty of all rational content and coherence, and that, in times like these, is far from a meaningless statement.” DoeArtSeemsArtistVoiceDoubtPaintingEmptyStatementsRationalAbstractNo DoubtMeaninglessCoherenceAbstract PaintingTimes Like These Book:Art and Technics Source: Art and Technics
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.” IfsBelieveDoeTwoHandsDoubtEssentialsVicesDisasterRationalFacultyVice Versa Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).” DoeBodyIndividualChurchDoubtTeacherNeededUniversalUnionsInvisibleRationalServantOfficialsNo Doubt Author:Immanuel Kant
“I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.” ThinkingMenBelieveWellsChildrenFeelingsMightPainFaithAttitudeTakenDoubtRationalEducatedArticlesSkepticismPersistentSkepticalBackyardsAnything In LifeEducated Man Author:Brenda Ueland
“We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods” ThinkingMenWorldKindSpiritCommonDoubtImagineHappeningsCommon SenseRationalShockOur WorldSanityPrimitiveAccustomedFetishPrimitive Man Author:Carl Jung
“Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” WayWellsI CanMatterFactsValuesBeliefResultsQualityTeachDoubtIgnoranceLessonsImportanceRationalExpertsAnother WayFreedom Of ThoughtMatter Of FactRational ThoughtPositive Results Author:Richard P. Feynman
“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.” BelieveIdeasSpeakI BelieveDoubtEmotionalReaderRationalEssaysBe ConfidentInvokeUnderratedPersonal EssaysGreat Freedom Author:Marty Nemko