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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous…
— Adrienne Rich
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Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation…
— John Dewey
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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay…
— Rollo May
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation…
— John Dewey
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of…
— Thomas Merton
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.
— Alexander Pope
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Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature
— Mohammad MUSTAFA
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