Quotes by Mátrai László

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Philosophy and typology know two ways of thinking: one person believes what he sees, the other sees what he believes.

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Even people with the most different ways of thinking live in the same world: there is no separate reality for believers and another for unbelievers. And no matter how much science refrains from interfering with people's individual beliefs, it cannot in any way accept as truth what can be proven merely by the emotions or traditions of certain people or groups of people, and not by the laws of nature and society.

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The demonstrable, rational clarity of science is incompatible with the obscurity that religion exudes in the questions it answers to believers.

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There are many important human questions that modern science still owes or partially owes answers to. In these questions, the most diverse opinions and traditions originating from the darkness of the distant past "give answers" to today's people as well.

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People's consciousness often lags behind their existence.

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Faithfulness to reality, an explanation of the world without lies and obscurity has always been science's sole calling; more precisely: science has existed only since and to the extent that the world explanation without lies became possible in the history of mankind.

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The dying tree (...) still bears late fruits.

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Religion necessarily arose and survived in such an inhumane world that bred unhappiness on a mass scale, where the suffering, vulnerable person could only cast the anchor of his hopes in the afterlife, supernatural reparation.

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Human thinking is in a necessary and inseparable relationship with light, in both the physical and spiritual, figurative sense of the word. From the invention of fire lighting to electronic calculators, from primitive sorcery to the recognition of society's complex laws of motion: what else is the history of human culture than a struggle against the terrifying forces of darkness, uncertainty, obscurity, a struggle for the enforcement of light, security, and reason?

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Fear gives birth to its gods both historically and psychologically.

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Emotional functions cannot be separated from the individual's psychological functioning as a whole, as they are an integral, necessarily occurring component of the relationship with the external and internal world; they are - in normal cases - inevitable consequences of the reflection of reality. And this means that thinking cannot be separated from emotions in such a way, with such metaphysical sharpness, as if they were independent "spiritual abilities" of the individual: the individual's thoughts and emotions are both connected to reality.

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Religious delusions have no place in the 20th century. in the worldview of 20th century man, where the rational, verifiable truths of science are the only decisive word.

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The ultimate meaning of every experience is to become a work of art.