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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979)

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But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

I like Islam, it is consistent [or consequential] idea of religion and open-minded.

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

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Religions are, for the most part, bad-but religion is not.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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