Logic is not concerned with human behavior in the same sense that physiology, psychology, and social sciences are concerned with i...t. These sciences formulate laws or universal statements which have as their subject matter human activities as processes in time. Logic, on the contrary, is concerned with relations between factual sentences (or thoughts). If logic ever discusses the truth of factual sentences it does so only conditionally, somewhat as follows: if such-and-such a sentence is true, then such-and-such another sentence is true. Logic itself does not decide whether the first sentence is true, but surrenders that question to one or the other of the empirical sciences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of ...our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it--the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul de Bursac: You don't think much of me, Captain Morgan. You're wondering why they have chosen me for this mission. I wonder to...o. As you know, I am not a brave man. On the contrary, I'm always frightened. I wish I could borrow your nature for awhile, Captain. When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word failure does not even exist for you. While I, I think always, suppose I fail and that I am frightened. Harry Morgan: Yeah, I can easily see how it wouldn't take much courage to get a notorious patriot off Devils' Island. But uh, but just for professional reasons, I'd like to know how you're going to do it. Paul de Bursac: We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I'm, I'm still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else, perhaps to a better man who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefe...nsible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must cultivate our own garden.... When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves ...that man was not born to rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »