tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926676.post110478241199485725..comments2023-08-29T01:58:24.749-07:00Comments on Funny Love Quotes, Famous Inspirational Short Sayings, Life, Poem, Cute, Movie, Friendship: Reason and Belief - Quotations - Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Funny QuotesJayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11304903199705597496noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926676.post-1107751333785537142005-02-06T20:42:00.000-08:002005-02-06T20:42:00.000-08:00"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can m..."Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive."........MacVeganAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926676.post-1107750887829755332005-02-06T20:34:00.000-08:002005-02-06T20:34:00.000-08:00"The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. ..."The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.".....MacVeganAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926676.post-1106840418380132172005-01-27T07:40:00.000-08:002005-01-27T07:40:00.000-08:00Reason is, perhaps, just a tool to realise the tru...Reason is, perhaps, just a tool to realise the truth and describe it. A belief may just be a different tool for the same purpose. But what is the final arbiter for truth? Does this question always remain? It seems that reason and belief are time dependent. They seem to complement each other and yet, sometimes, replace each other, as and when required. When the first mind thought of the earth as a sphere, it may not have been reasonable or immediately verifiable. In fact it could have just been a belief (or theory, in contemporaneous terms), that was made "lonely" in not finding the support of past beliefs. But this is not "reason enough" to thwart that belief, for actually, that belief has withstood the test of time and stands today by repeated verification as undeniable "reason". What was reasonable in the past (the earth being flat, for instance), has become unreasonable today. So there seems to be this continuous transmutation of what is reasonable and what is not. If there is something that is non-transmutable, and if that is the truth, then perhaps, it cannot be realised by either "reason" or "belief". Maybe, it needs to be experienced. But by what means - merely aided by our senses?......MacGrill Supporter........DouglasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com