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- Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
- But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it…
- To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case,…
- We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just…
- Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle