Philosophy

-Ara Baliozian-

Faith can move mountains?
What nonsense!
God created mountains to be stationary.
Why would anyone want to challenge His will by moving them?

*You tell idiots faith can move mountains and next thing you know
they raise armies, go on the war path liberating distant lands,
converting infidels, and engaging in plunder and massacre.

*If we don't know the meaning of life and death it may be because God
wanted it that way.
Not knowing is not ignorance.
Pretending to know the unknowable: that's what I call the quintessence
of ignorance compounded by blasphemy.

*Tasting the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge can be a risky business.
But when it comes to learning from history or repeating it, men have
exhibited a marked preference for repeating it.

*Three of my favorite philosophical statements:
"Of the gods we know nothing" (Socrates).
"We don't know why things exist" (Heidegger).
"We believe that we believe but we don't believe" (Sartre).

*"I think therefore I am"?
Countless men have ceased to be exactly because some moron said:
"I think my belief system to be the only true oneand anyone who does
not think as I do doesn't deserve to live."