The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The fact of the matter is that it is not John Ziegler’s job to be responsible, or nuanced, or to think about whether his on-air comments are productive or dangerous, or cogent, or even defensible. That is not to say that the host would not defend his “we’re better”—strenuously—or that he does not believe it’s true. It is to say that he has exactly one on-air job, and that is to be stimulating.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Psychologists, by dint of reading the precepts of Bacon and the discourses of Descartes, have mistaken their own dreams for science.
~ Auguste Comte
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
~ John Steinbeck
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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