#phil

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy ↗

— Isaac Newton

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#nature #philosophy #nature

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know". ↗

— Nathanie Randall

#philosophical #religion #science #nature

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach. ↗

— Chris F. Holm

#hell #philosophy #religion #religion

One's interest or need does not annul other's right. ↗

— Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #ethics #islam

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. ↗

— Carla VanKoughnett

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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#religion-philosophy #religion

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself. ↗

— Celia Rees

#philosophy #nature

Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#philosophy #uncertainty #life

Give me matter and i will build a world out of it. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#science #science