A Reconciliatory Reading of Al-Ghazal and Ibn Rushd By: Mohammad Mahdi The Idea of God and Thinkers in the Past: The word that first existed was of God. And God existed besides this word. And God is the word. But which came first – God or the world? The core of Islamic tradition is the
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By: Bertrand Russell n this chapter we have to ask ourselves whether, in any sense at all, there is such a thing
By: Carl Sagan (From Broca’s Brain) IT WAS A MUSEUM, in a way like any other, this Musée de l’Homme, Museum of
By: G. E. Moore In what follows I have merely tried to state, one by one, some of the most important points
By: Daniel C. Dennett We used to sing a lot when I was a child, around the campfire at summer camp, at
By: Francis Bacon DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong
A Reconciliatory Reading of Al-Ghazal and Ibn Rushd By: Mohammad Mahdi The Idea of God and Thinkers in
By: Bertrand Russell CHAPTER I IS there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no
By: A.C. Grayling Jean-Paul Sartre lived a very public life, and serves as a paradigm of the engage
A Man Oh Socrates! Thou must listen to this poor wretch for, he now no more wants to
I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true. Of the many lies they told, one in particular surprised me, namely that you should be
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By: Francis Bacon DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers. Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of
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By: RUDYARD KIPLING If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about,
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By: Charles Bukowski there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against itand the best at hate are those who preach loveand the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who
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I pass by his house,Finding its door open.My beloved stands beside his mother,His siblings all around him.He looks at me as I pass,(But) I alone rejoice.Had his mother known my heart,She would have gone inside for a moment.O Golden One, put that in her heart,so I may hurry to my beloved,and kiss him before his
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By: Bertrand Russell n this chapter we have to ask ourselves whether, in any sense at all, there is such a thing as matter. Is there a table which has a certain intrinsic nature, and continues to exist when I am not looking, or is the table merely a product of my imagination, a dream-table
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A Reconciliatory Reading of Al-Ghazal and Ibn Rushd By: Mohammad Mahdi The Idea of God and Thinkers in the Past: The word that first existed was of God. And God existed besides this word. And God is the word. But which came first – God or the world? The core of Islamic tradition is the
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By: Carl Sagan (From Broca’s Brain) IT WAS A MUSEUM, in a way like any other, this Musée de l’Homme, Museum of Man, situated on a pleasant eminence with, from the restaurant plaza in back, a splendid view of the Eiffel Tower. We were there to talk with Yves Coppens, the able associate director of
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By: W.W. Jacobs “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.” – Anonymous PART ONE Outside, the night was cold and wet, but in the small living room the curtains were closed and thefire burned brightly. Father and son were playing chess; the father, whose ideas about the gameinvolved some very unusual moves,
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FABLES OF PHÆDRUS When Athens was flourishing under just laws, liberty grown wanton embroiled the city, and license relaxed the reins of ancient discipline. Upon this, the partisans of factions conspiring, Pisistratus the Tyrant seized the citadel. When the Athenians were lamenting their sad servitude (not that he was cruel, but because every burden is grievous
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By: W.W. Jacobs “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.” – Anonymous PART ONE Outside, the night was cold and wet, but in the small living room the curtains were closed and thefire burned brightly. Father and son were playing chess; the father, whose ideas about the gameinvolved some
FABLES OF PHÆDRUS When Athens was flourishing under just laws, liberty grown wanton embroiled the city, and license relaxed the reins of ancient discipline. Upon this, the partisans of factions conspiring, Pisistratus the Tyrant seized the citadel. When the Athenians were lamenting their sad servitude (not that he was cruel, but because every
By: O. Henry That was all. She had put it aside, one cent and then another and then another, in her careful buying of meat and other food. Della counted it three times. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.There was nothing to do but fall on
By: RUDYARD KIPLING If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing
By: Charles Bukowski there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply
I pass by his house,Finding its door open.My beloved stands beside his mother,His siblings all around