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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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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most…
— Thomas Sprat
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Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner…
— Saul Bellow
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his…
— Mortimer Adler
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For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of…
— Umberto Eco
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…
— David Bentley Hart
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Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
— David Berlinski
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My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of…
— Antony Flew
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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques…
— Kenny Smith
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Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe…
— Rene Thom
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything…
— Fredric Jameson
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
— Alfred Korzybski
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