If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
("Sophie's World")
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Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
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Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
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A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.àWe know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.
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