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Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that…
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us…
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All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second…
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A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes…
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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
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Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the…
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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and…
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Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober…
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Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience…
— Albert Einstein
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us…
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Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
— Stephen King
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Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking,…
— Gary Snyder
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It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you…
— Ville Valo
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
— Fidel Castro
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event…
— John Hodgman
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Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife…
— D. H. Lawrence
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
— Bob Newhart
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Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its…
— Hannah Arendt
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