"To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another."

-- Cornelius Van Til

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“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon (2006). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887”, p.396, Rutgers University Press
“Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.”
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
“There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.”
“The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.”

Source : Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
“I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.”
“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.44, Wordsworth Editions
“We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.”

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