Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
Interpretation
Acceptance of reality, regardless of personal feelings about it.
This quote by Richard Dawkins emphasizes the idea that reality remains unchanged despite our emotional responses to it. We might lament or disapprove of certain truths, but acknowledging them is essential for understanding and navigating the world effectively.
In practice
In a discussion about climate change, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of facing the facts despite the discomfort.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.
The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
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