Both were predominantly ethical in aim and doctrine; theory of knowledge (logic) and of nature (physics) served rather as the scaf
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Pilate with his question "What is truth?" is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their p
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Upon the whole I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all of those difficulties, which have hitherto amused phil
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UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say "this we know."
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or
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Athletes and actors--let actors stand for the set of performing artists--share much. They share the need to make gesture as fluid
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed th
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