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“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?”

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Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.”

World Mind Reason Use Born Natural Bless

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.”

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Author:William Barrett

“If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.”

Ifs Humans Reason Would Be Law Natural Lawyer Equity

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis”

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Author:Albertus Magnus

“Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.”

Humans Reason Form Life Is Spirit Natural Divine Spring Divinity No Reason

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.”

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Book:Why Evolution Is True

Source: Why Evolution Is True