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Josh Aaron
https://www.goodreads.com/pretermodernist
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
― The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
― The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
― Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
― Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
“The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.”
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“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”
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