philosophy

"Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays"

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered …"

"The modern tragedy is not the tragedy of reason defeated but of reason triumphant."

"Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic."

"Mental note if you make it to forty remember on how all those fucks treated her. Stop being an asshole while you're still young."

"Wundt initiated the first systematic psychological research programme. This achievement occurred at the same time as his elaboration of a philosophy of science which was anti-inductivist and stressed …"

"Students once asked me, if being a historian, I could predict the future and I said "No, I can't. But, I can tell what you what won't happen.", and someone said "What won't happen? What do you know wh…"

"I have lost the use of everything but my reason, though my head is entrenched in three night-caps, and my throat, which is very bad, is fortified by a pair of stockings twisted in the form of a cravat…"

"Independence is an attribute of man, the social being; it should not be viewed as the development to perfection of a natural, biological attribute of living matter. This is, in essence, an evolutionar…"

"There are many reasons there was higher inflation in the 1970s. But that is a complicated story that deals with much more than tax policies."

"Biopiracy biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use."

"Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can …"

"To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take hiss for him. That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computeriz…"

"Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic."

"At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are c…"

"I have just finished your little book on 'The Logic of Vegetarianism.' It is the best thing on this subject in existence – bold, brilliant, unanswerable. I am glad you are on earth. If it were not for…"

"How free from every thing like art were the reasonings and language of Christ."

"The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor b…"

"Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education."

"We're confronted all the time with evolving viruses and bacteria. The Red Queen really rules the biological world, and we have to keep running just to keep up pace with the changing microorganisms. Ye…"