“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, full of charm; imaginary good is tiresome and flat. Real evil, however, is dreary, monotonous, barren. Real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” -- Simone Weil, Notebooks
“If God indeed does exist, what is the source of evil? But if He does not exist, what is the source of good?” -- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 1, Chapter 4
Query:
“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.” -- Avicenna,
“God made man in his own image. We are going to become one with God. We are going to have almost as much knowledge and almost as much power as God. Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in becoming one with God.”
In one sense, the atheist might believe in natural moral law; in another sense, he already believes in it; in yet a third sense, he cannot believe in it.
One party, with a few exceptions, really doesn’t care much about the poor. The other party wants to convert the poor into a permanent constituency of hopelessly dependent and utterly demoralized nonproductive consumers who vote for the hand that feeds them. Both parties want to feel good about it.
Many statists do not know that they are statists. A good many people who call themselves libertarians, for example, voted for Mr. Obama.
Some errors are terribly hard to discover and correct during one’s own lifetime, just because one is so invested in them. Change cannot come until the next generation. The natural consequences of these errors are the feedback loop.