Monicks: Unleashed

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  • Bertrand Russell – Quote

    People need to learn to discern “possibility” from “probability”. Almost anything is possible, but not probable – god falls into the latter category.

    “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”

    – Bertrand Russell

  • Better one of them than one of us.

    A very old Jewish man called his wife to his bed. ‘I am going to die. Please call a priest — I wish to convert to Catholicism.’ His wife responded with shock and disbelief, reminding her husband that they had been devout Jews all their lives. ‘I know, dear,’ he said, ‘but isn’t it better that one of them should die than one of us?’

    – Anonymous epigraph to John Martin Fischer, The Metaphysics of Death, 1993

  • Be grateful every day

    Carl Sagan

     

    ❝The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.❞

    ~ Carl Sagan