a clarifying agent for our minds fogged by self-deceptions, a challenge to our languid intellectual apathy that will too often rest in false truisms and the easy spiritual nostrums of the present age rather than search more deeply and
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“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to provide justifications for what they are doing or are about to do, they relieve us of what would otherwise be an intolerable burden.”
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
“Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.”
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
“Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.”
― Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
― Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
“Nothing is as evanescent in history as the pansophic theories that flourish among the illuminati of all times under the bright sunlight of the latest scientific discoveries; and nothing can be more easily dismissed by later periods as mere speculation.”
― Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
― Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
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