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«You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.»
«You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win»
«When I discover who I am, I'll be free.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Philosophy
«Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something?s getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.»
Author: Robert Nozick
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
contracted, cooperate, cooperating, entitlement, transferring
«When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Arguments,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
attempting, complicated, opaque, philosopher, plainly, tedious, The Philosopher, true to
«You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Philosophy,
Spirituality
| Keywords:
Brain may, first principle, Scientology
«Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Ignorance,
Philosophy,
Progress,
Wonder
| Keywords:
foundation, inquiries, inquiry, The Foundation
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