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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than…
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught…
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put…
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What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in…
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the…
— Annie Besant
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years…
— Stefan Zweig
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…
— Chauncey Wright
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Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which…
— Erich Heller
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
— Thomas Carlyle
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For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,…
— Stanislaw Lem
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As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.…
— Emile M. Cioran
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