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"The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism."
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"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."
"Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas."
"And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."
"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
"It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach."
"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise."
"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."
"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."
"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
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