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philosophybits · 6 months
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A man is so prone to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared to distort the truth on purpose, prepared to deny the visible and the audible just so he can justify his own logic.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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pratchettquotes · 6 months
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Susan was sensible. It was, she knew, a major character flaw. It did not make you popular, or cheerful, and--this seemed to her to be the most unfair bit--it didn't even make you right.
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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ancappunk · 8 months
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thirdity · 4 months
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The universe itself — and the Mind behind it — is insane. Therefore someone in touch with reality is, by definition, in touch with the insane: infused by the irrational.
Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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nobeerreviews · 5 months
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
-- Paul Cezanne
(Merlischachen, Switzerland)
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danskjavlarna · 1 month
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orangerosebush · 1 month
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Artemis will disassemble and clean a fountain pen with the same level of intensity as Butler disassembling and cleaning one of his guns.
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thepersonalquotes · 8 months
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But then of course everything always happens for a reason
Eminem
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Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2022)    
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When some people insist on the use of "inclusive language" what they are referring to is the use of words without clear or stable definitions. "Tolerance" for them means to be liberated from the constraints of coherent meaning. They are not at war with the narrow judgmentalism of particular individuals but with rational order itself. To work without clear definitions is to abandon reason.
And as I have argued before, the ultimate political tyranny is the one that is not even constrained by principles of reason; a political tyranny that is able to shape reality itself.
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kafkasapartment · 5 months
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“A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.”
From “New Hopes for a Changing World”, Bertrand Russell.
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philosophybits · 16 days
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When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.
Max Horkheimer, "The End of Reason"
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pratchettquotes · 4 months
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"I'd better be going," said Susan. "Miss Butts always checks the dorms on the stroke of midnight."
"How many dormitories are there?" said the raven.
"About thirty, I think."
"You believe she checks them all at midnight and you don't believe in the Hogfather?"
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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"Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason." -- James Randi
"Faith" is the antithesis of reason.
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thirdity · 4 months
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To see human beings as signifying animals — even outside the practice of verbal language — and to see that their ability to produce and to interpret signs, as well as their ability to draw inferences, is rooted in the same cognitive structures, represent a way to give form to our experience.
Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
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thatsbelievable · 1 year
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