"The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?"

-- John Perry

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“One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.”

Source : Kate Sanborn (1916). “Educated dogs of to-day”
“To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.”
“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?”
“The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.”
“If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life.”
“...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another.”

Source : Elias HICKS (1861). “Letters of E. Hicks, including also observations on the slavery of the Africans, etc”, p.46
“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”

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