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“There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis — about the meaning of what we say — and there is all of this … all of life.”

“The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future. There are only two ways of approaching this problem on the assumption that it is a genuine problem, and it is easy to see that neither of them can lead to its solution.”

“Did atheist philosopher see God when he 'died'?" by William Cash, in National Post”

“It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

“To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.”

“I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.”

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"Every major U.S. war of the last several decades has begun the same way: the U.S. government fabricates an inflammatory, emotionally provocative lie which large U.S. media outlets uncritically treat a…"

— Glenn Greenwald

Law1967

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"Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for themselves some hypothesis to their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry, or whatever else they choose, ar…"

— Hippocrates

Medicine-469–-407

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"It is not that there are different Purushas to experience but the same Purusha is experienced differently at different levels. There is the experience of Divinity at the level of purified manas, but t…"

— Ram Swarup

Literature1920–1998

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