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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
David Brooksborn 1961
- Theology
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
RZRobert Zend1929–1985
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
René Descartes1596–1650
- Knowledge
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley1890–1957“Safe and Sane” in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92
- Theology
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The New Jerusalem
- Theology
What do you know and how do you know it?
Ayn Rand1905–1982
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Theology
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx1818–1883“Theses on Feuerbach” (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15
- Change
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus1913–1960An Absurd Reasoning
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
Albert Camus1913–1960“Three Interviews” in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue, § 4, tr. Thomas CommonIn context