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Quote by Olavo de Carvalho

“Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.”

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Olavo de Carvalho

Olavo de Carvalho is a Brazilian philosopher born on April 29, 1947. His thoughts are deeply influenced by existentialism and conservatism, focusing mainly on political philosophy, cultural criticism, and religious philosophy. more

“Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.”

Facts Truth Belief Truth Is Function Add Indifferent Dip

Book:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

“If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Results Style Torture Toil Poke Rewriting

Author:William James

“All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.”

Natural Love Is Pleasure Youth Health Fame Breaths Wings Riches Goods Cheat

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902

“Truth in our ideas means their power to work.”

Mean Ideas Truth

Book:Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

“Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.”