"The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity."

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Source : Joseph Glanvill (1665). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; In an Essay of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinon. With a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius”, p.122

Joseph Glanvill

#Passion Quotes #Needs Quotes #Noise Quotes

“I like when people don't feel the need to have everything add up perfectly. I don't think we need that, what I think we need is to let ourselves have room to move and understand that life is a journey. And with that comes freedom. I think the more you try to compartmentalize and snap it all into place you may rob yourself of an experience that's really important for you.”

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“If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.”
“The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.”

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“Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.”
“We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.”
“Tequila is my drink. It is my favorite alcohol, my favorite liquor because, you know, it's a stimulant and not a depressant. If I go to a party and everyone's been drinking and I don't have time to really "catch up" - I'm not trying to get drunk but I want to feel good - I drink tequila.”
“It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.”
“They're great kids, great young people, and they fight like hell.”

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