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 | Phil Fernandes - 2002 - 254 pages
...all finish our meaningless journeys in total nothingness. The famous atheist Bertrand Russell wrote: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and Ms beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
 | Jerry L. Walls - 2002 - 242 pages
...will do double duty for us since it is also most relevant to the whole issue of the meaning of life. That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
 | Phil Fernandes - 2002 - 186 pages
...rejection of God led him to refer to the universe as "purposeless" and "void of meaning." 26 Russell wrote: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
 | Gregory S. Cootsona - 2002 - 124 pages
...unsurprising that the twentieth-century atheist and philosophical titan Bertrand Russell could state bluntly: "[M]an is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving."16 Offering a doctrine of creation in this environment presents a formidable task. It requires... | |
 | Timothy A. Robinson - 2002 - 452 pages
...a short and powerful statement of it from a 1903 essay by Bertrand Russell, "A Free Man's Worship." That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
 | Murray Miles - 2003 - 698 pages
...human condition, even if the scientific outlook itself is much more alien to Sartre than to Russell: That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
 | Lewis Vaughn, Austin Dacey - 2003 - 244 pages
...the finality of death. The following passage from Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian is well known: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - 485 pages
...Man's Worship" of 1903, Bertrand Russell summed up the image of humanity's place in the world thus: That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and his fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - 2003 - 200 pages
...regarded as part of the cosmic process, fated to extinction with it. Let us listen to Bertrand Russell: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...the end they were achieving; that his origin, his *Eos, or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony, p. 55; quoted in Dampier-Whetham, A History of Science, p.... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 2003 - 370 pages
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that bis origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental... | |
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