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“Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.”
― The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
― The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
“the human mind is so constructed that it cannot begin to understand the new until it has done everything in its power to relate it to the old.”
― The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
― The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
“In the ashes all men are levelled.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse. We ought, on the contrary, delicately and profoundly to respect one another's mental freedom: then only shall we bring about the intellectual republic; then only shall we have that spirit of inner tolerance without which all our outer tolerance is soulless,”
― The Collected Works of William James
― The Collected Works of William James
“My argument against a naive form of empiricism was essentially anticipated by Mark Twain. On his first appointment as a reporter, he tells us, the editor of the newspaper instructed him never to report anything unless he could verify it or confirm it by personal knowledge. So he described a social event as follows: 'A woman giving the name of Mrs James Jones, who is reported to be one of the society leaders of the city, is said to have given what purported to be a party yesterday to a number of alleged ladies. The hostess claims to be the wife of a reputed attorney.'
One sees that Mark Twain was quick to realize the silliness of the naive empiricist (verificationist) theory of the sources of our knowledge.”
― Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
One sees that Mark Twain was quick to realize the silliness of the naive empiricist (verificationist) theory of the sources of our knowledge.”
― Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
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