Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) British philosopher
Chap. 2 : Experience and Its Modes
Experience and Its Modes (1933)
“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”
Source: What Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph Beuys
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Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
"Free Hope" p. 127.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)
Context: Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground? No — but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher
Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p. xix.
“[Peace must be] founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, and put into practice in freedom.”
[Pacem esse] dicimus in veritate positam, ad iustitiae praecepta constitutam, caritate altam et expletam, libertate postremo auspice effectam.
Pope John XXIII Pacem in Terris
Pacem in Terris (11 April 1963), ¶ 167
Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer
Our Blood 1976 as quoted in The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental by Rebecca Wanzo
Melanie Joy book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Source: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2010), p. 40
“Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
[Adelaide Bry, 1976, est, 60 Hours that Transform Your Life, New York, Avon, 17]
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