Quotes
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Hilary Putnam

"Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'."

-- Hilary Putnam

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“If you have no obstacles in your own mind, then outer obstacles will not hinder you or cause you worry.”
“When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.”
“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1899). “Launcelot and Guenevere: The marriage of Guenevere”
“[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.”

Source : John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House
“There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not require the university for sustenance. And there are still places in the world where there is lively poetry communities largely divorced from academia. That's been destroyed in the US. In the US, famously, there were a lot of counter-spaces that lasted into the 60s and 70s, like the Black Arts Movement. They were systematically broken, often by the government, and the workshop arose in their place.”
“Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.”
“I hire people that are good, and aren't crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.”
“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”

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