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Paul Feyerabend

"It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, 'objectivity', 'truth', it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes."

Source : "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

Paul Feyerabend

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“It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and keep your goal in mind and remember that you're doing your job - whatever that is, whether it's a producer or an artist or a mastering engineer - because you love it, then all that stuff falls by the wayside.”

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“I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.”
“I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.”
“I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”

Source : "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.
“The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.”
“I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.”
“Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.”
“I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.”

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