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“Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.”

Mind Understanding Views Influence Divine Intellectual Method Deeds Connected Rational Latter Providence Incapable Divine Providence

Author:Maimonides

“Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.”

“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.”

“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!”

Giving Has Beens Reason Universe Accepting Generations Subjects Judging Method Vices Contemporary Rational Visible Innate This Generation Between You And Me

Author:Adelard of Bath

“Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest of our lives (see John 4:24). We don't have to be great singers or musicians to worship God. But we do need to be in a personal relationship with Him and live with the truth of His greatness reflecting through all we are becoming and all we do.”

Needs Spirit Consciousness Our Lives Greatness Becoming Worship Musician Method Singers Rational Consistent Reflecting Personal Relationships Worship God

Author:Darlene Zschech

“The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.”

Science Air Land Particular Discovery Method Rational Flight Observation Interpretation Airplane Imaginative Aeroplanes Generalization Thin Air

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.”

Reason Religion Atheism Conflict Consequence Method Arguing Rational Propositions Demonstration Acquiring Knowledge

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

Source: Atheism: The Case Against God

“I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.”

Believe Humans Ends Individual I Believe Wish Decision Clear Method Medical Rational Timing Euthanasia Pain In Life

Author:A.C. Grayling

“Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.”

Thinking World Way Self Problem Individual Social Scientist Method Mythology Objectives Rational Logical Serving Stereotype Robots Biased Scientific Method Preconceptions Self Serving

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.”

Mind Education Mathematics Method Worthy Math Rational Employment Mathematical Reasoning Investigation Correctness

Book:The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot

Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot