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"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
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"A library is chamber of treasures."
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"How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know about the person or the thing."
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"While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost."
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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing."
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"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
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"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."
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"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"The truth is that few know the truth."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."
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"Regardless of one's age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful."
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"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."
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"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
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"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
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"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects."
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"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
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"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
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