“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.” IfsWantShouldReasonFactsProblemAcceptingIntellectualConsequenceSuicideDenyCommitNo ReasonFundCivilizedOutlookCivilized SocietyScientific FactsInhumane Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.” ProblemLinesIntellectualTasksPhilosophicalSuicidePhilosopherCuresAnalysisExplanationInquiryTherapistsPuzzlingBewitched Book:Essays in Quasi-Realism Source: Essays in Quasi-Realism
“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.” MayMoralCreativityHistoryIntellectualSuicideLiberationInvitationsPostmodernismSirens Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
“How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.” IfsHandsBeliefIntellectualSuicideMiserableInsanitySolipsism Author:Kedar Joshi
“My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.” MindHeartTogetherIndividualChristLordMy HeartIntellectualHarmonySuicideCommitSaviorHeart And Mind Book:More Than a Carpenter Source: More Than a Carpenter
“There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.” PersonsJesusStrongHonestIntellectualEvidenceSuicideHistoricalDeitiesCumulativeHonest Person Book:Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Source: Basic Christianity, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.” WorldMindVisionIntellectualCommitmentSuicideOpennessIrrevocableNew Vision Author:Alan Watts
“This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free of ignorance, false beliefs or prejudice. Able to honor each person as they walk their own path and not infringe our own personal beliefs onto them but to accept what ever form that carries truth for them” InspirationalGivingPersonsMotivationalAbleSpiritualFormBeliefUnderstandingWalksAcceptingPathIgnoranceHonorHealthyIntellectualEnlightenmentPrejudiceSuicideWell BeingCarrieSuicidal ThoughtsPersonal Beliefs Author:Jane Seymour
“To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.” LoveLifeKnowledgeLearningIntellectualSuicide Author:Issac Asimov
“I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labour meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on earth.” LifeFreedomIntellectualLaborDignitySuicideLabourZweig Author:Stefan Zweig