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“When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.”

Certain Opinion Dangerous Consequence Philosophical Absurdity

Book:Moral Philosophy

Source: Moral Philosophy

“THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.”

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God.”

Ifs Trying Stills God Would Be Greater Worst Prove Philosophical Philosopher Occasions Absurdity Demonstration There Is No God

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

Men Life Subjects Creatures Philosophical Privilege Absurdity Living Creatures

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.”

Thinking Men Believe May Matter Body Action Fall Force I Believe Philosophical Distance Faculty Absurdity Vacuums Mediation

Book:Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”

Spirituality Existence Conditions Argument Philosophical Programming Absurdity Criminal Mind Irrationality

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits