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Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers Quotes: Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
         

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.


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Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.



Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.



Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.



Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.



We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.





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