“Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.” IfsWritingTryingWrittenMysteryStupidTheoryDuesPermanentProvenDue Time Author:Joey Santiago
“Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.” IdeasSometimesChristianCausesDifferencesReligiousChristianityTakenTheoryEvidenceHistoricalIslamDuesLocalsIslamicInterpretationScholarSufiResemblanceEsoteric Book:The Elephant in the Dark Source: The Elephant in the Dark
“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.” MindHas BeensStatesPoliticalPurposeForceSocialTheoryHabitProveTaxesDoctorsClubsDuesSpheresRevenueLiving OnAnalogiesSocial ScienceHabits Of Mind Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter
“That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.” FactsProcessSituationPrinciplesPracticeTeacherWrittenTeachingTheoryAffairActiveDuesDoctrineConstructiveConceded Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.” WorldHas BeensViewsTheoryAspectPhilosopherDivorceDuesPoint Of ViewTechniquePracticalsDoctrineTriumphUtilityPenetration Book:History of Western Philosophy Source: History of Western Philosophy
“I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.” ThinkingStudyTheoryUniversityCriticalDuesPostsTheoreticalVacuumsAmerican UniversitiesCritical Theory Author:Susan Sontag