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«Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man»
Author: George Gaylord Simpson
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
concepts, dogmatic, exhibited, perverse, solar system, The Solar System
«Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Justice
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abstractions, carry out, concepts, efficient, hand and foot, lowest, methods, shortest, sterile
«Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...»
Author: William Gibson
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billions, concepts, consensual, cyberspace, hallucination, hallucinations, legitimate, mathematical, operator, operators
«Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
concepts, constitute, corresponded, corresponding, corresponds, elements, intuition, in some way, The Elements, yield
«All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.»
«Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.»
«But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
concepts, depravities, depravity, deserving, distress, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, for example, immutable, obliteration, originating, satisfy, sighing
«I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.»
«Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.»
«Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
concepts, Histories, homesickness, ravage, ravaged, ravages, retain, scenes, withstanding
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