Faith is the excuse people give for #believing something when they don’t have a good #reason.
—Matt Dillahunty

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#atheism #faith #god

Nancy Mace Throws Fit Over 'Evil' People Wanting A Town Hall — And Her Reason Is Mind-Boggling

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-mace-town-hall-evil_l_67f53219e4b063f5d48806b0

The congresswoman said people calling her office requesting a town hall were being "ugly" and "hateful." Experts weigh in on what's most concerning.

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A quotation from Victor Hugo

Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
 
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76086/

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A quotation from Chamfort

He who tries to make his happiness depend too much on his reason, who holds it up for examination, who quibbles, as it were, with his delights, and admits no indelicate pleasures, ends by having none at all. He is a man who cards the wool of his mattress until nothing is left, and he ends by sleeping on the boards.
 
[Celui qui veut trop faire dépendre son bonheur de sa raison, qui le soumet à l’examen, qui chicane, pour ainsi dire, ses jouissances, et n’admet que des plaisirs délicats, finit par n’en plus avoir. C’est un homme qui, à force de faire carder son matelas, le voit diminuer, et finit par coucher sur la dure.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 179 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/760…

#Religion…asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves – to replace #reason with its opposite, faith. When men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.
—James L. Sutter

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A quotation from Ellis Peters

The step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small, almost accidental, that I wonder why it astonishes you at all, or why you trouble to reason about it. If it were reasonable it could not be miraculous, could it?

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
The Holy Thief, ch. 10 [Aline] (1992)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/peters-ellis/3130/

#Hollywood HATES The #Crow..And The #Reason Is #WEIRDER Than You Think by Zaffy #yt

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How to #think about the #sublime

An exquisite mix of #fear and #awe, #pleasure and #pain, the sublime stretches the #imagination and reveals the limits of #reason

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Passion is fabulous. It gets us out of the bed in the morning. But when it out of control, it can takes us places we need to reconsider. Questioning, or reason, helps us have the best of both.

The crimes of the century were the result of a faith in final solutions, and hence the failure to be reconciled to the limits of human reason and to the inevitability of loss and error.
-- Isaiah Berlin

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