“It was horrifying. As a little kid, you’re absolutely vulnerable to what these powerful preachers and other adults are telling you. They control your life, and as far as you know, the world. You don’t understand that it’s a little group of mostly uneducated people huddling in a little church that pe…”— Doug Frank, theotherjournal.com
“We have no idea what we don't know. Or what we'll eventually learn, or what might be true despite our perpetual inability to comprehend what the truth is. It's impossible to understand the world of today until today has become tomorrow.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“We're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the certitude it generates is paralyzing.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“There are no circumstances in which a consensus about an object's color is logically guaranteed to be the truth-however extensive the consensus is.”— John Hyman, amazon.com
“Forces are manifested in poems that do not pass through the circuits of knowledge.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“And thus the project of self-realization is thrown back on the experience of self-loss from it springs.”— Thomas Harrison, amazon.com
“For example, we normally predicate truth of propositional entities like assertions or beliefs. But we can grasp a proposition as potentially true or false only to the extent that we can understand how to use it to uncover or make salient a fact or state of affairs. So we could say that the being of…”— Mark A. Wrathall , amazon.com
“My analysis of practice points to a situatedness and path dependence of knowledge production.”— Andrew Pickering, amazon.com
“For a perspectival realist, the strongest claims a scientist can legitimately make are of a qualified, conditional form: 'According to this highly confirmed theory (or reliable instrument), the world seems to be roughly such and such.' There is no way legitimately to take the further objectivist ste…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“There is exactly one true and complete description of 'the way the world is.”— Hilary Putnam , amazon.com
“The nature of the knowledge itself was rarely questioned. It was taken for granted that scientists were discovering the objectively real inner workings of nature. These workings are there to be discovered. It only takes effort, sometimes requiring huge expenditures of resources, to uncover them. Thi…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will…”— Jonathan Gottschall, amazon.com
“With truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“The simplest reply was given by Tolstoy with his statement, 'Science is meaningless because it has no answer to the only questions that matter to us: What should we do? How shall we live?’ The fact that science cannot give us this answer is absolutely indisputable. The question is only in what sense…”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“In Schmitt’s view, all thought, which does not recognize that order is created out of disorder and that rationality is based on an 'irrational' foundation, is itself irrational.”— Mika Ojakangas, amazon.com
“If in the evolution of consciousness we include the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, it is evidently impossible completely, or even significantly, to plan what the next stage of consciousness will be. Consciously developed plans may affect the next stage of consciousness but they them…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com