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Simon Blackburn Quotes
![[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/921/920966/920966.webp "[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies Picture Quote #1")
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Motion however will not help unless we have things moving (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
There was content, but no container (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
What underlies our assignment of probabilities in the real world? (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Thoughts are strange things. They have ‘representational’ powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies. (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people? (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Chance is as relentless as necessity (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism? (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that? (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma, are sometimes consoling (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
A God that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
A signpost doesn’t in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up (Simon Blackburn Quotes)
The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge (Simon Blackburn Quotes)