Obtaining as many perspectives as possible is an invaluable pursuit, as how you view the world defines your world.
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Quote:- Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean 'neither affirming nor denying a belief in God.' Actually, this is no great loss, because the dictionary definition of agnostic is still again different from Huxley’s definition. The literal meaning of agnostic is one who holds that some aspect of reality is unknowable. Therefore, an agnostic is not simply someone who suspends judgment on an issue, but rather one who suspends judgment because he feels that the subject is unknowable and therefore no judgment can be made. It is possible, therefore, for someone not to believe in a God (as Huxley did not) and yet still suspend judgment (ie, be an agnostic) about whether it is possible to obtain knowledge of a God. Such a person would be an atheistic agnostic. It is also possible to believe in the existence of a force behind the universe, but to hold (as did Herbert Spencer) that any knowledge of that force was unobtainable. Such a person would be a theistic agnostic.
Author:- Gordon Stein
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Obviously, no one can escape the chains of self-interest. It is the same attribute of self-interest that shapes our judgments.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Obviously, the kind that belongs to him.Hua Cheng reached out and lifted Xie Lian’s chin. His temper is certainly nice, but my temper is bad. No one shall touch what I love except for me.
天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]
Author:- 墨香铜臭 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
Category:- Love
Quote:- Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
The Devil's Web
Author:- Mary Balogh
Category:- time
Quote:- Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.Trust your demon.
Author:- Roger Zelazny
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Occasionally, what makes us uncertain, doubtful, and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be high achievers. The cure for a snakebite is made from the poison; in the same way, the fear that made you go backward can be the same force that can push you forward. Use fear as motivation!
Author:- Tony Warrick
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Ocean tides were not meant for the weak-willed. Diving in takes courage but it is foresight that governs its acts of fearlessness.
Author:- Reena Doss
Category:- time
Quote:- Ocean waves remind me of our laughterour first night out together, the first datebeside the shore of the boulevard that was called to be the place of broken dreams. While some hearts are breaking, we tried to mend ours hoping we could make memories and we could prove that this place isn't always for broken dreams. Hoping that every step we took would never endthat the smiles we shared will help us mend.It's never easy to trust again but I tried to gain some strength to try the luck in love once more.But you failed. It was always my love that stays. You failed the moment you choose to let go. You failed to prove that some hearts stay even if others don't. I was the only one holding, but not your heart this time. I kept our memories in me while I watched you lose your grasp of ours. It's never easy.
Author:- Verliza Gajeles
Category:- Love
Quote:- Odasaku," Dazai said softly. "Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen from here on out. There's gotta be something...
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
Author:- Kafka Asagiri
Category:- hope
Quote:- Odasaku...' Dazai said softly. 'Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen from here on out. There's gotta be something...
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
Author:- Kafka Asagiri
Category:- hope
Quote:- Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.
The Song of Achilles
Author:- Madeline Miller
Category:- time
Quote:- Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his researches to consider in what manner they could possibly be turned to practical account; and so we would not now be able to boast of the wonders done by the electric telegraphs. Indeed, no great law in Natural Philosophy has ever been discovered for its practical implications, but the instances are innumerable of investigations apparently quite useless in this narrow sense of the word which have led to the most valuable results.
Author:- Lord Kelvin
Category:- science
Quote:- Of all hope we hadOf all songs we sangOf all dreams we caressedBut yet, it’s still like the morning
13 Days of Solitude: Thoughts beyond Words
Author:- Abdulkadir Abdullahi
Category:- best
Quote:- Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.
Author:- William Shakespeare
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Of all Races,Of all Creed,Of all Hopes,Of all Paces, We are Humans First! We Deserve to Live! Together We Stand, Together We Say! We Want PEACE!
Author:- Somya Kedia
Category:- hope
Quote:- Of all the animals that fly, some are like floating flowers (butterflies), some are songbirds that are full of gulp (swallows), and some are swimming birds that also run marathons (ducks). When I compose music to be performed live in an elevator, those are my inspirations.
Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
Author:- Jarod Kintz
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.
Killosophy
Author:- Criss Jami
Category:- science
Quote:- Of all the religions and spiritual groups in the world, why do we end up in one or, sometimes, a few? With all the people in the world, why do we closely bond with a relative few? It is destiny, karma. It is internally driven by the need for lessons and the working out of karma from past forgotten associations, agreements prior to being born, and that which will give us specific learning opportunities. Some bonds arise and then release, and some bonds remain intact. Sometimes, we cannot tell whether something is beneficial long-term. So, we let time and the flow of events decide for us. There is nothing to prove. We submit to the divine process – not another and not our own ego. It is true humility and makes us invulnerable to domination by any other human. Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.
The Love of Devotion
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- Relationships