“Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.” SoulGivenMy OwnTheoryCreaturesFellowsImmortalityBoonAbhorrent Book:Records of Later Life Source: Records of Later Life
“Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!” MenChristTheoryRevolutionFellowsFellow ManGod Is LoveRussian Revolution Author:Isadora Duncan
“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.” MenGivingWellsKindMayEndsStatesTogetherOrderUnderstandingNatureLossAnswersRelationshipConditionsSubjectsTheoryComfortBuiltFellowsStructureDeeperMythMythologyMake SenseExplanationReliefDescriptionFellow ManPsychoanalysisBelievableBewildermentDeeper UnderstandingIncoherenceLoose EndsBelievabilityLevi Strauss Author:Peter Medawar
“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.” MenWorldWayNeedsGivingChildrenPlayCareFormLawArtistViewsSecurityTheoryCitizensScientistFellowsInstitutionsTake CareRationalityFellow ManInventorMamaWorld ViewMethodologyPapa Author:Paul Feyerabend
“You do not need intellectuality for deep faith. You do not need it for behaving humanely towards people whether fellow Muslims or non-Muslims. You do not need a concept, a theory, you do not need intellectual arguments for justifying a way of living that is already in place in order for it to proceed.” PeopleWayNeedsOrderTheoryIntellectualConceptsArgumentFellows Author:Talal Asad
“A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!” MenYearsHas BeensSelfHandsGovernmentHouseWishImagineInfluenceFrontsEmotionalTheoryRedFellowsResponseDearMinistersToneDepartmentHallsOld ManFavouriteFifteenEldersLecturesStatesmenVisitorsOxfordAdmissionFifteen YearsUndergraduateHouse Of CommonsZoology Author:Richard Dawkins
“Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.” PeopleIfsHas BeensHurtTheoryIdealsFellowsProfitWork OutMaking MoneyDecentGetting HurtThings Work Out Book:At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf Source: At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
“Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.” LooksFactsTheoryConceptsFellowsAccepted Author:Albert Einstein
“I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.” WorldWayHumansLongHuman NatureFieldsTheoryLong TimeSkinsFellowsOur WorldReciprocity Author:Gardner Murphy
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” ChildrenBeautifulReligionSpiritualityReligiousFreedomWifeAtheismTheorySmartRespectFellowsAtheistIntelligenceCynicalAtheisticPhilosophy Of ReligionTheismPhilosophy And ReligionGod DelusionCurmudgeonGreatest AtheistDaily AtheistMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken