"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

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Source : "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

Jacob Bronowski

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“Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.”

Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.17, University of Toronto Press
“I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.”
“Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.”

Source : "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.
“We need to act for the sake of a redemption that will be a mystery until it unfolds before us.”
“To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.”
“Humility is something I've always prided myself on.”
“Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.”

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