The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at… — Anthony Beal Copy Share Image
“...the argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that… — Ernest MacBride Copy Share Image
War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that our belief in man’s intellect is the greatest fallacy of them all?” “What?” I exclaimed. “Ask any journalist,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fallacy of monetary policy in the U.S. is to believe this money will go to the man on the street. It… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a… — Robert Agostinelli Copy Share Image
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“Our entire economy is based on productivity measures that have little to do with “human input”. Sooner or later the entire system… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product,… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others.… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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