"A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content."

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Source : Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal (2011). “Intellectual Impostures”, p.196, Profile Books

Alan Sokal

#Doe Quotes #Labels Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.”
“These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer.”
“Tests of love always end badly.”
“You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.”
“People arenâ€™t photographing for history any more. Itâ€™s for immediate gratification. If youâ€™re photographing to share an image, youâ€™re not photographing to keep it.”
“Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.”
“Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.”
“An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.”

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