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«Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy»
«I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.»
Author: Cynthia Ozick
| Keywords:
congeries, equivalent, fallacies, fallacy, gossips, incomplete, scientific, scientific fact, so-called, The So, thinkers, welcome
«The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure»
«I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring»
Author: William Archer
| Keywords:
anthropomorphic, at present, calamities, enduring, fallacies, fallacy, harmless, infirmity, noxious, suggest
«Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
accurate, fallacies, fallacy, merciless, rigidly
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
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as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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dragons, fallacies, fallacy, fiery, interpose, interposed, interposing, librarian, librarians, Libraries, manage, public libraries, public library, public servant, reader, servants, the books, The Librarian, The Public Interest
«A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
educate, fallacies, fallacy, falls, Fall of Man, married man, married woman, marries, reform, reforming, The Fall of Man, victim
«There is no permanent place in [this universe] for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.»
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