RE: Theists i have a little challenge for you
November 11, 2014 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2014 at 11:59 pm by Mudhammam.)
"Nobody is very likely to consider a doctrine true merely because it makes people happy or virtuous--except perhaps the lovely 'Idealists' who become effusive about the good, the true, and the beautiful and allow all kinds of motley, clumsy, and benevolent desiderata to swim around in utter confusion in their pond. Happiness and virtue are no arguments. But people like to forget--even sober spirits--that making unhappy and evil are no counterarguments. Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree."
"In any event, the greatest suspicion of a 'truth' should arise when feelings of pleasure enter the discussion of the question 'What is true?' The proof of 'pleasure' is a proof of 'pleasure'--nothing else... At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has had to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul."
Well said, Nietzsche, ya old mutt!
"In any event, the greatest suspicion of a 'truth' should arise when feelings of pleasure enter the discussion of the question 'What is true?' The proof of 'pleasure' is a proof of 'pleasure'--nothing else... At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has had to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul."
Well said, Nietzsche, ya old mutt!
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
