
— David Hume, buch An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 1
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Quelle: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding/An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Preface
The Importance of Living (1937)
Kontext: This is a personal testimony, a testimony of my own experience of thought and life. It is not intended to be objective and makes no claim to establish eternal truths. In fact I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing. I should have liked to call it "A Lyrical Philosophy," using the word "lyrical" in the sense of being a highly personal and individual outlook...
— David Hume, buch An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 1
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
Quelle: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding/An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
„A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object.“
— Umberto Eco, buch Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
[O] : Introduction, 0.8
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Kontext: A general semiotics studies the whole of the human signifying activity — languages — and languages are what constitutes human beings as such, that is, as semiotic animals. It studies and describes languages through languages. By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course. A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object.
— George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950
"As I Please," Tribune (4 February 1944)<sup> http://alexpeak.com/twr/hiwbtw/</sup>
As I Please (1943–1947)
— Michael Polanyi Hungarian-British polymath 1891 - 1976
Quelle: Personal Knowledge (1958), p. vii-viii
— Clemens August Graf von Galen German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism 1878 - 1946
The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.
Speech against Nazi euthanasia (August 3, 1941)
— Ketanji Brown Jackson United States District Judge 1970
Committee on the Judiary, United States House of Representatives, Plaintiff, v. Donald F. McGahn II, Defendant. (Nov 25, 2019)
— Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794
Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)
— Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968
Quote in: 'The Bride and the Bachelors', Tomkins, p. 41; as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 171
in this quote Duchamp is quoting himself
posthumous
— Jean Paul Sartre, buch Being and Nothingness
Quelle: Being and Nothingness (1943), p. 237, 1998 edition
— Ivar Jacobson Swedish computer scientist 1939
Quelle: Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach (1992), p. 133 as cited in: " Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach Ivar Jacobson, et al. (1992) http://tedfelix.com/software/jacobson1992.html", Book review by Ted Felix on tedfelix.com, 2006.
„Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim we are about midway to our objective!“
— Chester W. Nimitz United States Navy fleet admiral 1885 - 1966
After the Battle of Midway, CINCPAC Communiqué No. 3, (6 June 1942)
Kontext: Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.
It was on a Sunday just six months ago that the Japanese made their peace‑time attack on our fleet and army activities on Oahu. At that time they created heavy damage, it is true, but their act aroused the grim determination of our citizenry to avenge such treachery, and it raised, not lowered, the morale of our fighting men.
Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged. Vengeance will not be complete until Japanese sea power has been reduced to impotence. We have made substantial progress in that direction. Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim we are about midway to our objective!
— William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910
Lecture XX, "Conclusions"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Kontext: This thoroughly 'pragmatic' view of religion has usually been taken as a matter of course by common men. They have interpolated divine miracles into the field of nature, they have built a heaven out beyond the grave. It is only transcendentalist metaphysicians who think that, without adding any concrete details to Nature, or subtracting any, but by simply calling it the expression of absolute spirit, you make it more divine just as it stands. I believe the pragmatic way of taking religion to be the deeper way. It gives it body as well as soul, it makes it claim, as everything real must claim, some characteristic realm of fact as its very own. What the more characteristically divine facts are, apart from the actual inflow of energy in the faith-state and the prayer-state, I know not. But the over-belief on which I am ready to make my personal venture is that they exist. The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in. By being faithful in my poor measure to this over-belief, I seem to myself to keep more sane and true. I can, of course, put myself into the sectarian scientist's attitude, and imagine vividly that the world of sensations and scientific laws and objects may be all. But whenever I do this, I hear that inward monitor of which W. K. Clifford once wrote, whispering the word 'bosh!' Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow 'scientific' bounds. Assuredly, the real world is of a different temperament — more intricately built than physical science allows. So my objective and my subjective conscience both hold me to the over-belief which I express. Who knows whether the faithfulness of individuals here below to their own poor over-beliefs may not actually help God in turn to be more effectively faithful to his own greater tasks?
„Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.“
— Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592
— Jagadish Chandra Bose Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist 1858 - 1937
India's Great Scientist, J.C. Bose