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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and read more
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no read more
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to read more
It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.
