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Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. … We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.

— Kurt Gödel Logical Dilemmas : The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel (1997)

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

Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979)

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.

A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy (1996)

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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