"Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology."

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Source : Interview with David DeVorkin, www.aip.org. August 8, 1978.

William Wilson Morgan

#People Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Phenomenology Quotes

“We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.”

Source : Source: logosjournal.com
“toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
“But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.”
“May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.”

Source : "The emerging police state: resisting illegitimate authority". Book by William Moses Kunstler, p. 96, 2004.
“It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.”

Source : "Propaganda trumps journalism in conservative media climate reporting" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2015.
“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
“Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can I get my own way?' These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.”
“There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.”

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