"Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research."

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Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.

Jurgen Habermas

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“We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.”
“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.75, ETT Imprint
“Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.”
“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”
“Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky”
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”
“You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.”
“It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead?"”

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