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Citat: Wittgenstein
Når man bliver anklaget for at “spille med ordene” eller deltage i en “ordleg”, så fristes man til at citere: “Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.” §120, PI.
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Emiliansk visdomscitat
Not all stupid people are fools. Everyone is born stupid, only the fool remains stupid; the smart remedy themselves. Learning is the true opposition of foolishness!
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Dagens citat – Nietzsche
Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing:- the soul wished the body meagre, ghastly, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul! But ye,…
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Dagens citat af Max Planck
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Religion und Naturwissenschaft (Leipzig, 1958) Jeg gætter på, at konteksten dengang var af pre-relativistisk fysik vs. relativistisk fysik, men det…
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Dagens citat
When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?…
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Citat fra 'logik og argumenter'
“At tænke er noget man må lære. Vi er ikke fra naturens side udstyret med evnen til at tænke klart og logisk men må som i alt andet lære og øve os for at kunne tænke og argumentere uden fejlslutninger. Og alligevel er der adskillige der mener, at man ikke behøver øvelse i at tænke.…
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Citat
Emil: Jeg havde en jeg snakkede rigtig meget med på efterskolen, og næsten var enig med. Christian Severinsen: En lærer? Emil: Nej en person.