"One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided what the result should be in any case by applying the given view itself, this would preclude discovering it did not correctly fit the case. Readers who hold they would plug in to the machine should notice whether their first impulse was not to do so, followed later by the thought that since only experiences could matter, the machine would be all right after all."

-- Robert Nozick

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“It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.”
“Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.”
“Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.”
“I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.”
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

Source : "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.
“So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.”
“To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.”

Source : John Flavel (1801). “A Treatise on the Keeping of the Heart”, p.38
“Always know and remember that you are more than your physical body.”

Source : Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.87, Harmony

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