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Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those
“Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology—those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.”
Richard Rorty

Hannah Arendt
“The effectiveness of this kind of propaganda demonstrates one of the chief characteristics of modern masses. They do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience; they do not trust their eyes and ears but only their imaginations, which may be caught by anything that is at once universal and consistent in itself. What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Gaston Bachelard
“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Albert Camus
“Men who share the same rooms, soldiers or prisoners, develop a strange alliance as if, having cast off their armour with their clothing, they fraternized every evening, over and above their differences, in the ancient community of dream and fatigue.”
Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom

Immanuel Kant
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.”
Immanuel Kant

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