“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” InspirationalNeedsMindTruthScienceChoicesChangeFreedomLibertySweetProveEconomicsBusyIntelligenceLibertarianProofCleverLife ChangingLife And LoveChange ManagementInspirational ChangeMind ChangingProgress And ChangeChanging My MindFuture ProgressChange Is Hard Book:The Essential Galbraith Source: The Essential Galbraith
“One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.” IfsStillsMatterScienceNamesSweetBuddhismFunctionRoseIntellectSmellConvenient Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.” IdeasBodyScienceCertainUnderstandingQualityFiguresProduceSweetBluePatternsWarmPrimariesSensationsResemblanceInsensible Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding