"A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts."

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Source : "Human Understanding". Book by Stephen Toulmin (Volume 1 "The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts", epigraph), 1972.

Stephen Toulmin

#Commitment Quotes #Ideas Quotes #He Man Quotes

“It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year left. Just do it." I had a full scholarship so I didn't have to pay for it. They asked, "Why don't you just get the degree so you can have it?" And I said, "You don't understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it's dumb to waste any more time."”
“This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.”
“A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring.”
“Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.”
“Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”
“I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.”
“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!”
“I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.”

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