Aaron Lietz Life

Thoughts & Meditations on Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Skepticism, Atheism, and Counter Apologetics



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  “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”

 

-Thomas Paine

  “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

 

-George Bernard Shaw

  “Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.”

 

-Paul Kurtz

  “There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”

 

-Daniel Dennett

  “When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken…”

 

-David Hume

  “I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?”

 

-Eliezer Yudkowsky

  “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

 

-Charles Darwin

  “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

 

-Carl Sagan

  “Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”

 

-Christopher Hitchens