"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."

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Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Edmund Husserl

#Would Be Quotes #Nasty Quotes #Kind Quotes

“There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.”
“There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.”
“By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.”
“I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.”
“We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.”
“I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.”
“If you're not talking, you're not playing defense”
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”

Source : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House

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