Quote by Michael Polanyi
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. – Dean Inge

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

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I havent lost faith in human nature and I havent decided to be less compassionate to strangers. – Armistead Maupin

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