"Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about."

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Source : "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1966.

Willard Van Orman Quine

“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.”
“The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind ...”

Source : Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”
“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.”
“If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.”
“Heâ€™d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand othersâ€¦heads had rolled.”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
“I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.”
“We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.”

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