Giulio Giorello Quotes
1945–2020 Italy
Giulio Giorello (1945 – 2020) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist.
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Yes, we have a soul. But it is made up of many small robots.
Geymonat believes that scientific progress can be summed up in the slogan: “challenge and create”: the best service we can render it is therefore to challenge it.
Any human behavior, even the most horrible in the light of certain values, is natural because it is permitted by the laws of nature.
Every culture has a need for the divine, more like a need for love.
Darwin's ‘'Autobiography’' is not only a valuable testimony to the genesis of a concept and the personality of the man who produced it, but also a civic lesson in freedom.
The foundation of ethics is the practice of ethics; there is no need to base it on anything else.
I believe that we can make sense of the world without necessarily bringing God into it.
I fully identify with the anti-idolatrous component of Christianity.
Recently, I saw a photograph of Queen Elizabeth and the Pope meeting. They were the image of two remnants. The monarchy within the church and the monarchy within the state.
All evidence of the existence of God implies a kind of submission.
Dylan teaches us that philosophical work is essentially work on our incompleteness, on our finitude, on the fact that we are conditioned by a whole host of things.
The best thing is to discuss with confident, passionate people. And in this, Giussani was a true master.
Methodological atheism is precisely a way of living as if God did not exist, or regardless of God, or regardless of those who claim to impose their values in the name of God.
Scientists are wrong when, faced with a part of reality that does not correspond to their theory, they try to erase reality instead of modifying the theory.
The core of Catholic interventionism is not, in principle, too different from so-called Islamic fundamentalism (although I personally dislike this term). In both cases, our response must be the same: ‘'They shall not pass!’'
The libertine is constantly seeking new intellectual experiences. And so, in this sense, lust is the passion for knowledge, for moving forward, for never stopping, for never being satisfied with a point of view that has been reached.
Criticism is not only corrosive—if it dissolves old bonds, it is because it creates new solidarity. (p. 73)
Too often we forget that the opposite of relativism is absolutism. (p. 15)
Fundamentalism arises, precisely with this word, in the context of Christianity, particularly Protestant Christianity, especially American. [...] There is also Catholic fundamentalism.