Sentences with phrase «road to truth»
Objecting to what he regards as anti-intellectual fundamentalism, Conn indulges in a fundamentalism of his own — the a priori assumption (in effect, an unexamined prejudice) that reason provides the sole high road to truth and that it can in no way coexist with faith.
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That is the only road to truth about anything.»
The declaration makes for good class discussion, but whenever I asked my classes to evaluate Freud's claim that science is the only reliable road to truth, it did not take them long to recognize that the claim itself is logically self - defeating, since it could never be justified by any conceivable scientific experiment.
He does not explain why he insists on proof, but it may be the result of having gone to college and medical school, where he learned that the scientific method is the only road to truth.
The road to truth can not be trodden indiscriminately.
No, God demands the opposite: that we become inwardly attentive to his quiet exhortation, which is present in us and which tears us away from what is merely habitual and puts us on the road to truth.
I am convinced that the continued and increased dominance of the complex of capitalism, utilitarianism, and the belief that the only road to truth is science will rapidly lead to the destruction of American society, or possibly in an effort to stave off destruction, to a technical tyranny of the «brave new world» variety.
It enriches the lives of us all and creates children, I like to think like myself, that learn from a young age that people are different and the road to Truth is varied — and majestic in its variety.
«Something more therefore is necessary than mere cry and wholesale assertion, and that something is TRUTH; and as inquiry is the road to truth, he that is opposed to inquiry is not a friend to truth.
«There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth... not going all the way, and not starting.»
I read a beautiful quote (yes, we live in a world of quotes, inundated by memes, but it's how we process and use the insight that matters) from the Buddha himself, «There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.»
The road to the truth is long and hard, but that is the road we must follow.