7 Quotes & Sayings By George H Smith

George H. Smith was born in Santa Fe county, Georgia, in 1851. His family moved to Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas before settling in New Mexico. George's early education was obtained at the public schools of Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana Read more

He attended the University of North Texas at Denton for one year and then transferred to the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878. Mr. Smith spent several years teaching school before returning to his native state to teach at various academies for one year each.

He took up newspaper work as an editor and publisher in Georgia for about three years before moving to the newspaper business in Denver, Colorado, where he worked until 1890. He then moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he became active in politics. He was first elected to the state legislature where he served two terms as a Republican.

Mr. Smith was elected mayor of San Antonio in 1896 and served until 1901 when he resigned because of poor health. He was again elected mayor in 1903 but resigned shortly after taking office because of his failing health again.

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It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting himself. There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. . George H. Smith
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[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible. George H. Smith
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[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible. George H. Smith
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If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinate characteristics. These attributes would impose limits and these limits would restrict the capacities of this supernatural being. In this case, a supernatural being would be subject to the causal relationships that mark natural existence, which would disqualify it as a god. Therefore, we must somehow conceive of a being without a specific nature, a being that is indeterminate–a being, in other words, that is nothing in particular. But these characteristics (or, more precisely, lack of characteristics) are incompatible with the notion of existence itself. George H. Smith
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If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinatecharacteristics. These attributes would impose limits and these limits would restrict the capacitiesof this supernatural being. In this case, a supernatural being would be subject to the causalrelationships that mark natural existence, which would disqualify it as a god. Therefore, we mustsomehow conceive of a being without a specific nature, a being that is indeterminate–a being, inother words, that is nothing in particular. But these characteristics (or, more precisely, lack ofcharacteristics) are incompatible with the notion of existence itself. George H. Smith
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To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. George H. Smith