Carl Brigham on intelligence (1923): a fake quote
On various socialist and egalitarian writings as well as the academic literature, one can find attacks on intelligence testing due to the bad early guys. One common example is Carl…
Ebook: Bruce L. Gary – QUOTES FOR MISANTHROPES: Mocking Homo Hypocritus
QUOTES FOR MISANTHROPES: Mocking Homo Hypocritus I was googling around for misanthropic quotes and found this delightful book ful of them. Very funy. Enjoy!
Christopher Badcock on eugenics
"Most importantly, Galton and all other eugenicists prior to the 1970s made the fundamental error of believing that heredity is a means by which nature reproduces organisms. Today we know…
Quote: Archibald A. Hill (maybe)
"A speaker of the language should be able to pronounce correctly any sequence of letters that he may meet, even if they were previously unknown, and secondarily, to be able…
Quote: George Burns
"There will always be a conflict between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men." (Quoted in David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology,…
Quote: Paul Ziff
[Discussing the type/token distinction or ambiguity] "I shall not in general try to eliminate these ambiguities by explicitly stating which sense is intended. Sometimes both senses are intended, sometimes not.…
Quote: Albert Einstein
"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it." Jotted (in German) on the margins of…
Quote: Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy
Wikipedia om bogen. "This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities." p. 10. Download: Bertrand Russell - The Problems…
Quote day
I går bestilte jeg en t-shirt med disse citater på ryggen. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language." -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations…
Quote: David Hume
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. Source: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) Part 4 Of the sceptical and other systems of philosophy,…