“Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.” PersonsDoeSecretCasesRecordsOffersIndependentAlternativesDumbDaily LifeVehicleJournalSuperficialAlasDeafSense Of SelfIlliterateJournalingKeeping A JournalSecret Thoughts Author:Susan Sontag
“I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.” TryingLeftViewsEvolutionPoliticianOffersIntellectualRegardIndependentCritical Author:Tariq Ramadan
“As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.” LongProblemAliveDevelopmentOffersIndependentBranchesAbundanceExtinction Author:David Hilbert
“Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.” NeedsMatterReasonMightActionDecisionAttitudePrinciplesConditionsTheoryOughtOffersJudgmentIndependentObjectivesRelatedJustifyMetaphysicalProceduresTrackingObjective Truth Author:Allen W. Wood
“It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions.” UseActionOpportunitySpaceOne ThingSeriousOffersIndependentRaisesInstitutionsUniversityRangeEngagedEngagementConsensusThoughts And ActionsRaises Questions Author:Noam Chomsky
“The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.” ThinkingBelieveReasonFilmI BelieveSpecialOffersIndependentI Believe InMillionaireSomething SpecialIndependent Film Author:Jason Ritter
“I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental cultivation; that the study of Chemistry is profitable, not only inasmuch as it promotes the material interests of mankind, but also because it furnishes us with insight into those wonders of creation which immediately surround us, and with which our existence, life, and development, are most closely connected.” MeanScienceInterestPowerfulExistenceWonderStudyMankindCreationMaterialsDevelopmentHigherOffersIndependentConvictionInsightConnectedMost PowerfulChemistrySurroundProfitableAttainmentCultivation Book:The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry Source: The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry