"Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science."

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Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1918). “The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy”

Joseph Alexander Leighton

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“There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.”
“Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”
“One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.”
“It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life.”
“There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.”
“For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jul 03, 2011
“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
“My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.”

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