"A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first."

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Source : "The Rationality of Induction". Book by David Stove, p. 99, first paragraph, 1986.

David Stove

#Character Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.”
“God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.”
“A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me.”
“It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.”
“One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.”
“We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.”

Source : Herbert Bayer, Beaumont Newhall (1977). “Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition”
“I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I donâ€™t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise itâ€™s the end of our species.”
“The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.”

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