Philosophy
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Logical Proof
‘It is useless, my son. I have read Aristotle through twice and have found nothing about spots on the Sun. There are no spots on the Sun. They arise either from imperfections of your telescope or from defects in your eyes.‘― 17th century Jesuit professor
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Belief
‘I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.‘― Albert Einstein
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Unification
‘What God has put asunder, let no man join together.’― Wolfgang Pauli
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Free will 2
‘Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.‘― Albert Einstein
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Religion
‘Do I believe in God? I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not…
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Free will
‘A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills.‘― Schopenhauer
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A Good Pummeling
‘The wicked angel of empiricism continues to pummel me.‘― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Italië
‘De begeerte om dit land te zien was overrijp; pas nu ze bevredigd is, krijg ik mijn vrienden en vaderland weer innig lief en wordt mijn terugkeer wenselijk, en wel temeer omdat ik het stellige gevoel heb dat ik zovele schatten niet tot eigen bezit en eigen gebruik meeneem, maar dat ze mij en anderen…
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