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🇺🇸John Dewey

Philosophy

1859–1952

"Art expresses, it does not state; it is concerned with existences in their perceived qualities, not with conceptions symbolized in terms."

"In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help."

"Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores."

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

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🇫🇷Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy

structuralism

1908–1961

"It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession."

"To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason."

"Thesis. Finite, Representable. Antithesis. Infinite, System of Notions lying at the limit of the representable."

"Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD."

"As used today, the word realism means in the first place the opposite to idealism when it claims that it is possible to pass from the subject to the object."

"We don't invent our missions, we detect them."

"...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand..."

"Canada is a country that works better in practice than in theory."

"Human needs, although originally derived from biological necessity, are thus a result of the existence of society and are conditioned by the stage of development which society has reached."

"I joined the socialist movement because I did not like the kind of society we had and wanted something better."

"Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society."

"Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong."

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."

"Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness."

"Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life."

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🇫🇷Jean Pierre Flourens

"An outstanding choice. Tough, smart and principled"

"The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now."

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🇵🇱Alice Miller (psychologist)

Psychology

1923–2010

"Hard as it is to believe, in the entire world there is not a single faculty in which a degree is offered in the study of psychic injuries in childhood."

"Actual practices in the advanced democratic countries are, then, far too diverse and complex to be captured by ideologies."

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🇨🇦Ian Hacking

Philosophy

historical epistemology

1936–2023

"A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'."

"It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch."

"The New Divinity" from Essays of a Humanist"

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🇺🇸Joseph Stiglitz

Politics

New Keynesian economics

b. 1943

"Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working."

"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action."

"Ingels: Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic."

"The two-person iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework."

"a language which we speak and understand but cannot translate"

"Wikipedia needs to recruit women, yes, but, more importantly, it needs to recruit feminists. And feminists can be of any gender."

"Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property."

"Neither the free will of the people nor the right of self-determination nor even the consent of a majority of convinced National-Socialists can be cited as justification for the obliteration of Austria after 1938."

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