Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.