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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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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."
Beginning
"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
Logic
"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
Reality
"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
Creativity
"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."
Knowledge
"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."
Action
"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."
Time
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
Action
"Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process."
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