Philosophy Of Religion

🇺🇸Henry David Thoreau

Literature

Western philosophy

1817–1862

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.."

🇺🇸Daniel Dennett

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1942–2024

"Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores."

🇺🇸George Holmes Howison

Philosophy

1834–1916

"“Judged by the light of this "vale of tears" alone, there is no evidence that good will toward us is the chief or the permanent aim of the eternal Lord or lords."

"The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing."

🇺🇸Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)

Literature

Existentialism

1921–1980

"The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught."

🇩🇪Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Philosophy

Materialism

1804–1872

"I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood."

🇬🇧Antony Flew

Philosophy

1923–2010

"The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love."

🇨🇭Karl Jaspers

Philosophy

continental philosophy

1883–1969

"Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility."