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4 months 2 weeks ago

Somehow, the practice of astronomy, physics, chemistry or biology normally fails to evoke the controversies over fundamentals that today seem endemic among, say, psychologists or sociologists. Attempting to discover the source of that difference led me to recognize the role in scientific research of what I have since called "paradigms." These I take to be universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions for a community of practitioners.

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p. xiii
8 months 2 days ago

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

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6 months 2 weeks ago

For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.

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The First Part, Chapter 13, p. 61
8 months 3 weeks ago

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

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6 months 4 weeks ago

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

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As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay
7 months 3 weeks ago

The guidelines for achieving wisdom consist of three leading maxims: 1) Think for yourself; 2) (in communication with other people) Put yourself in the place of the other person; 3) Always think by remaining faithful to your own self.

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 95
5 months 1 week ago

So far from the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the hippocampus minor, being structures peculiar to and characteristic of man, as they have been over and over again asserted to be, even after the publication of the clearest demonstration of the reverse, it is precisely these structures which are the most marked cerebral characters common to man with the apes. They are among the most distinctly Simian peculiarities which the human organism exhibits.

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Ch.2, p. 119
3 months 3 weeks ago

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

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Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven (12 July 1801). Often misquoted as, "few die and none resign".
4 months 1 week ago

A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.

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Line 11.
6 months 2 weeks ago

I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which has spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations.

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4 months 1 week ago

Let another say. "Perhaps the worst will not happen." You yourself must say. "Well, what if it does happen? Let us see who wins! Perhaps it happens for my best interests; it may be that such a death will shed credit upon my life."

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3 months 3 weeks ago

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

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Letter to James Madison (30 January 1787); referring to Shays' Rebellion Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 6:65
7 months 3 weeks ago

Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

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A xix
8 months 1 week ago

We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.

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p.432
6 months 3 weeks ago

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

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Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (7 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 406
7 months 3 weeks ago

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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6 months 3 weeks ago

If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room.

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315
4 months 1 week ago

I will tell you: that perfect man, who has attained virtue, never cursed his luck, and never received the results of chance with dejection; he believed that he was citizen and soldier of the universe, accepting his tasks as if they were his orders. Whatever happened, he did not spurn it, as if it were evil and borne in upon him by hazard; he accepted it as if it were assigned to be his duty. "Whatever this may be,"he says, "it is my lot; it is rough and it is hard, but I must work diligently at the task."

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8 months 1 day ago

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

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6 months 2 weeks ago

Effort supposes resistance.

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Vol. I, par. 320
7 months 2 weeks ago

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its law and its rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

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Plato's Pharmacy, intro
7 months 3 weeks ago

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

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Authority and the Individual (1949), p. 59
6 months 2 weeks ago

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

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8 months 3 weeks ago

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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3 months 3 weeks ago

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

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Letter to James Madison (6 September 1789) ME 7:455, Papers 15:393

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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C 33
7 months 2 weeks ago

Almost as soon as I began to study philosophy, I was impressed by the way in which philosophical problems appeared, disappeared, or changed shape, as a result of new assumptions or vocabularies.

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Preface
5 months 3 weeks ago

After childhood, the senses specialize via the channels of dominant technologies and social weaponries.

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Letter to The Listener October 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 443
6 months 2 weeks ago

The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor - hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.

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5 months 2 weeks ago

It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realised, on the instant, what we have all dreamed on summer Sundays when the bells ring, or at night when we cannot sleep for the desire of living. They think it will sober and change them. Like those who join a brotherhood, they fancy it needs but an act to be out of the coil and clamour for ever. But this is a wile of the devil's. To the end, spring winds will sow disquietude, passing faces leave a regret behind them, and the whole world keep calling and calling in their ears. For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

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Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
7 months 3 weeks ago

Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.

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Merlin's Song, II

Progress can be slow, but one can kill another in a matter of seconds....

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4 months 1 week ago

Because the Egoist is to himself the warder of the human, and has nothing to say to the state except: "Get out of my sunshine!"

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Tucker 1907, p. 307
8 months 1 week ago

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

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7 months 3 weeks ago

Not my idea of God, but God.

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7 months 3 weeks ago

Through the emancipation of private property from the community, the State has become a separate entity, beside and outside civil society; but is it nothing more than the form of organization which the bourgeois necessarily adopt both for internal and external purposes, for the mutual guarantee of their property and interests.

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Part One The Marx-Engels Reader, p. 187
8 months 6 days ago

If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.

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8 months 3 weeks ago

Ten years on the moon could tell us more about the universe than a thousand years on the earth might be able to.

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7 months 2 weeks ago

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

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Stambaugh translation
6 months 1 week ago

Is there not therefore rational necessity, but vital anguish that impels us to believe in God. And to believe in God - I must reiterate it yet again - is, before all and above all, to feel a hunger for God, a hunger for divinity, to be sensible to his lack and absence, to wish that God may exist. And it is the wish to save the human finality of the Universe. For one might even come to resign oneself to being absorbed by God, if it be that our consciousness is based upon Consciousness, if consciousness is the end of the Universe.

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7 months 3 weeks ago

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

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Of Sir Richard Jebb, Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties, 1956
4 months 1 week ago

That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.

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Chapter 11, Section 4
5 months 3 weeks ago

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

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Maxim 469
7 months 3 weeks ago

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 345
7 months 3 weeks ago

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

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Ch. 11
7 months 5 days ago

Hear gladly!

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