"If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you are a secular person, an agnostic or an atheist, you may treat the Logos as "Einstein's god," that is the factual recognition that the cosmos is ordered according to rational principles, without which science itself wouldn't be possible."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Massimo Pigliucci

#Christian Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.”
“Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.”
“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”
“There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.”
“I thought you were all-seeing.â€ All-knowing, not all-seeing!â€ he snapped. â€œIâ€™m a God, not Santa Claus!”
“Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.”
“...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.”

Source : Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.”

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