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There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

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An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semant...more

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An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semant...more

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The map is not the territory.

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If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are radically distinct in function. A short analysis wi...more

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Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned by scient...more

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From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they sel...more

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Philosophy, as defined by Fichte, is the "science of sciences." Its aim was to solve the problems of the world. In the past, when all exact sciences w...more

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Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past an...more

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...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is...more

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Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, t...more

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Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use t...more