Tag: quotes
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Fragmentary, No. 19
We must be aware of the dangers that lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion. ♦ Lionel Trilling,…
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Fragmentary, No. 18
And the triumph of empiricism is jeopardized by the surprising truth that our sense data are primarily symbols. ♦ Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key
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Fragmentary, No. 2
“One of the mysteries in the history of chemistry is how seldom chemists blew themselves up while investigating novel substances and reactions. Hydrogen and oxygen . . . can burn smoothly together, but they can also react explosively. Priestley used to carry small bottles of these two airs, and he entertained visitors by exploding the…
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