The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.