“Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.” ThinkingMenMindHas BeensPhilosophyMightEasyWonderHe ManBrokenNakedReputationConfusedExposedEnginesExaminationGearsCogsMisperceptionSo Confused Author:PZ Myers
“The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.” MenFactsFacesWonderStupidIgnoranceHe ManMemorableCharmSlipsTrustedPresidencySplendidLiedDefianceStubbornnessStupid ThingsHandicapsNever Lie Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies” MenWorldWayEarthLawTurnsFreedomPoorCommonWonderEnemyPovertyRichLandCreationHe ManClubsFatsJudgementLowestConquestRichnessTheftReducingUpside DownRich And PoorSanctificationRenderingPitifulStatutesWorld Upside DownCauses Of PovertyFattening Author:Gerrard Winstanley
“I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.” MenHas BeensI CanEndsDoneActionLeftEnjoyWonderHe ManConcernedConstitutionActiveWeatherGloriousAstonishingNordic Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.” IfsMenShouldPowerfulWonderRichDogHe ManGratitudeBenefitsCharityInferiorsFavourScrap Author:Lord Chesterfield
“How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.” PeopleMenMindHumansCountryAbilityWonderCasesHe ManPopulationHuman MindPrisonerCastroRationalize Author:Thomas Sowell
“The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.” MenChildrenStillsLyingDiesWonderHe ManUnderstoodCeaseComplaintsSense Of Wonder Author:Anais Nin