Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge.
~ Auguste Comte
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Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge.
~ Auguste Comte
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I have watched death as it happens, and I have watched birth. What I learned is that neither are discrete events. They are both processes, things that unfold. Birth is a series of awakenings, and death is a series of sleepenings. My son will take years to be born, and my father took six months to die. Some people spend decades dying.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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The institutions that are fostering supposedly egalitarian politics limit upward mobility as much as they facilitate it. This has encouraged a type of blinkered and oftentimes unambitious style of activism among young people, which asks for many changes but does not challenge the system that provides them with their own lofty status.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The Industrial Revolution was merely the beginning of a revolution as extreme and radical as ever inflamed the minds of sectarians, but the new creed was utterly materialistic and believed that all human problems could be resolved given an unlimited amount of material commodities.
― Karl Polanyi
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