A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues or even simple ones, we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

–
Carl Sagan,

Billions amp; Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.

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John Paul II,

Fides Et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter of John Paul II

A lie’s true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the

A lie’s true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

–
Dennis Sharpe

We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a

We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.

–
Ndiritu Wahome

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the ‘American civil religion.’ The president must invoke the name of God though not Jesus, glorify America’s heroes and history,quote its sacred texts the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.

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Jonathan Haidt

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

–
Patrick Nowell-Smith

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct. – robert m

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

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robert m drake

If there must be strings attached, let them visible and water soluble. – Truth Devour, Wantin

If there must be strings attached, let them visible and water soluble.

–
Truth Devour,

Wantin

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. –

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

–
Aeschylus

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

–
William Shakespeare