December 2010
66 posts
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“I’d feel real trapped, in this life, right now, if I didn’t know I...”
November 2010
64 posts
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“The mind of man - how far will it advance? Where will its daring impudence find...”
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“[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those...”
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“The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and...”
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“[M]agic, it must be remembered, is an art which demands collaboration between...”
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“True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing that...”
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“A credulous mind… finds most delight in believing strange things, and the...”
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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins...”
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“[As] children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the...”
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“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions,...”
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““Truly, that which makes me believe there is no inhabitant on this sphere,...”
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“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike —...”
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“With the scientific view, or my father’s view, that we should look to see...”
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“Is this, then, true or mere vain fantasy?
— Euripedes, Ion (circa...”
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“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other....”
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“To realize in its completeness the universal beauty and perfection of the works...”
“Everything morally right derives from one of four sources: it concerns either...”
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“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating...”
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“I am not a pessimist. To perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a...”
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“The first day or so, we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day,...”
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“Plainly nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him… Fear...”
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“It takes courage to be afraid.
— Montaigne, Essays, III, 6 (1588)”
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“What a wonderful and amazing scheme we have here of the magnificent vastness of...”
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“When you are risen on the eastern horizon,
You have filled every land with your...”
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“Common sense is very uncommon.
— Horace Greeley”
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“Man became civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in...”
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“He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that...”
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“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally...”
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“I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t...”
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“The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts,...”
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“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark...”
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire”
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson”
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“Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious.
— Oscar Wilde (attributed)”
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“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and simple.
— Oscar Wilde”
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“The path or sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
—...”
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“The greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
— George Dana...”
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“The word “knowledge,” strictly employed, implies three things:...”
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“We are often misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one...”
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“Be careful of reading health books. You might die of a misprint.
— Mark...”
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“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all...”
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“Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
— Arthur...”
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“There are many more wrong roads than right ones.
— Jeffrey P. Cohn”
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“It’s always important to act crazy first, because you can always appear...”
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“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and...”
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“It is a mark of pseudo-science to think that being on the right track...”
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“There’s Gold in them thar’ hills! And the rush is on. Pandering...”
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“Some things have to be believed to be seen.
— Ralph Hodgson”
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“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense...”
