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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
Learning
"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
Politics
"When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer."
Ethics
"But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that."
Existence
"She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth."
Emotion
"The source of work? Man's mind...man's reasoning mind."
Productivity
"In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art."
Art
"Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others."
Integrity
"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."
Reality
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
Memory
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"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."
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Personal Development
"Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas."
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Personal Development
"If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought,who have memories and imagination in their mind. If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written."
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Personal Development
"If thou really believe in one God,irrationality is subset of thou logic."
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Personal Development
"Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!"
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Personal Development
"And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
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Personal Development
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
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Personal Development
"A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity."
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Personal Development
"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."
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Personal Development
"Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking."
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Personal Development
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