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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 week 5 days ago
We will likely also find that...

We will likely also find that the nature of the problem to be solved will be a principal determinant of the mix. With our growing understanding of the organization of judgmental and intuitive processes, of the specific knowledge that of the specific knowledge that is required to perform particular judgmental tasks, and of the cues that evoke such knowledge in situations in which it is relevant, we have a powerful new tool for improving expert judgment. We can specify the knowledge and the recognition capabilities that experts in a domain need to acquire, and use these specifications for designing appropriate learning procedures.

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p. 137.
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Confucius
Confucius
2 months 3 weeks ago
When the Great Dao (Tao, perfect...

When the Great Dao (Tao, perfect order) prevails, the world is like a Commonwealth State shared by all, not a dictatorship.

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John Locke
John Locke
2 months 5 days ago
He that denies any of the...

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1 month 4 weeks ago
I am my world.

I am my world.

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(The microcosm.) (5.63) Original German: Ich bin meine welt (Der Mikrokosmos.)
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Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
4 weeks 1 day ago
Some Machians were sufficiently impressed by...

Some Machians were sufficiently impressed by Einstein's interpretations of Brownian movement to accept atomism. Mach himself brushed such objections aside, and also emphatically rejected Einstein's relativity theory.

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W. W. Bartley III, "Philosophy of biology versus philosphy of physics" (2004) p. 412, Karl Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. III: Philosophy of Science 2.
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Willard van Orman Quine
Willard van Orman Quine
2 weeks 5 days ago
The issue over there being classes...

The issue over there being classes seems more a question of convenient conceptual scheme; the issue over there being centaurs, or brick houses on Elm Street, seems more a question of fact. But I have been urging that this difference is only one of degree, and that it turns upon our vaguely pragmatic inclination to adjust one strand of the fabric of science rather than another in accommodating some particular recalcitrant experience. Conservatism figures in such choices, and so does the quest for simplicity.

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"Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
2 months 1 week ago
Nothing is so firmly…

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

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Ch. 31. Of Divine Ordinances, tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 week 3 days ago
There is no belief....
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
I can't imagine a man really...

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

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Letter to Arthur Greeves (February 1932) - in They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963) (1979), p. 439
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2 months 4 days ago
With Leibnitz the extent to which...

With Leibnitz the extent to which thoughts advance is the extent of the universe; where comprehension ceases, the universe ceases, and God begins: so that later it was even maintained that to be comprehended was derogatory to God, because He was thus degraded into finitude. In that procedure a beginning is made from the determinate, this and that are stated to be necessary; but since in the next place the unity of these moments is not comprehended, it is transferred to God. God is therefore, as it were, the waste channel into which all contradictions flow: Leibnitz's Théodicée is just a popular summing up such as this.

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Third division, Chapter I. - The Metaphysics of the Understanding Alternate translation: "God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow."
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
2 months 2 weeks ago
God only pours out his light...

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
2 weeks 3 days ago
The haste of day rules over...

The haste of day rules over the night as empty form.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 weeks 5 days ago
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts...

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 months 4 days ago
There is a kind of latent...

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every particle.

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p. 263
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu
2 weeks 6 days ago
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body...

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

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No. 19. (Usbek writing to Rustan)
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 3 days ago
'Our kingdom go' is the necessary...

'Our kingdom go' is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is of self, the less there is of God.

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Chapter VI - Mortification, Non-Attachment, Right Livelihood
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
As long as this deliberate refusal...

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

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Protagoras
Protagoras
1 month 2 weeks ago
As touching the gods, I do...

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

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Opening lines of Concerning the Gods (DK 80 B4).
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 month 1 day ago
If women be educated for dependence;...

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
2 months 3 days ago
What the rest of us see...

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
Go further, and require each of...

Go further, and require each of them to make a contribution: you will see how many things are still missing, and you will be obliged to get the assistance of a large number of men who belong to different classes, priceless men, but to whom the gates of the academies are nonetheless closed because of their social station. All the members of these learned societies are more than is needed for a single object of human science; all the societies together are not sufficient for a science of man in general.

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Article on Encyclopedia
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Cornel West
Cornel West
1 month 4 weeks ago
The need of black conservatives to...

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.

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Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
1 month 4 days ago
Revolution is like the daughters of...

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.

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Act II.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
2 months 6 days ago
This species works intentionally on its...

This species works intentionally on its own destruction (by war). This, however, does not keep the rational creatures of such a constantly advancing culture, even in the midst of war, from promising to mankind in coming centuries an unequivocal prospect of bliss which will never end.

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Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 185
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Jesus
Jesus
3 weeks 5 days ago
It is not meet to take...

It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

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15:26 (KJV)
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2 months 4 days ago
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability...

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

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Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 837.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
2 months 1 week ago
We are much beholden to Machiavel...

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Book II, xxi, 9
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
1 month 1 week ago
This whole which is visible in...

This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance - a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.

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As translated by Paul Harrison
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 6 days ago
There were honest people long before...

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
3 months 4 days ago
Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

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William James
William James
2 months 3 days ago
The art of being wise is...

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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Ch. 22
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1 week 6 days ago
Rational free spirits are the light...

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
2 months 2 days ago
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

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God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
2 months 4 days ago
In fact the opposition of instinct...

In fact the opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1 month 4 days ago
Good order is the foundation of...

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
1 month 1 week ago
That neither our Thoughts, nor Passions,...

That neither our Thoughts, nor Passions, nor Ideas formed by the Imagination, exist without the Mind, is what every Body will allow. And it seems no less evident that the various Sensations or Ideas imprinted on the Sense... cannot exist otherwise than in a Mind perceiving them... For as to what is said of the absolute Existence of unthinking Things without any relation to their being perceived, that seems perfectly unintelligible. Their Esse is Percipi, nor is it possible they should have any Existence, out of the Minds or thinking Things which perceive them.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 months 6 days ago
The modern scientific counterpart to belief...
The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 day ago
Environments work us over and remake...

Environments work us over and remake us. It is man who is the content of and the message of the media, which are extensions of himself. Electronic man must know the effects of the world he has made above all things.

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(p. 90)
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 months 5 days ago
Men are by nature merely indifferent...

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Vol. 2 "On Women" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 day ago
The sculptural qualities of the image...

The sculptural qualities of the image dim down the purely personal identity.

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(p. 369)
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
1 month 1 week ago
To say that man is a...

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

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As quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Gutermam
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
1 month ago
People will do anything, no matter...

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world-all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.

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CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month ago
Speech and silence. We feel safer...

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
1 month ago
To have accomplished nothing and to...

To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 4 weeks ago
L'important, c'est que le sexe n'ait...

L'important, c'est que le sexe n'ait pas été seulement affaire de sensation et de plaisir, de loi ou d'interdiction, mais aussi de vrai et de faux. What is important is that sex was not only a question of sensation and pleasure, of law and interdiction, but also of the true and the false.

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Vol. I, p. 76
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Voltaire
Voltaire
2 months 5 days ago
Superstition sets the whole world….

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.

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Dictionnaire philosophique (1822), "Superstition"
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George Santayana
George Santayana
3 weeks 5 days ago
To call war the soil of...

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

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Ch. III: Industry, Government, the peasants
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John Rawls
John Rawls
2 months 2 days ago
First of all, principles should be...

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

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Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 131
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
2 months 2 weeks ago
It is not among extraordinary and...

It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
2 months 2 days ago
I... believe in the rationalist tradition...

I... believe in the rationalist tradition of a commonwealth of learning, and in the urgent need to preserve this tradition.

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