“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Presentiments.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Harold W. Percival book Thinking and Destiny
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 3, Objections to the law of thought, p. 48
Context: Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.
Nigel Warburton (1962) British author and lecturer
Philosophy : the basics (Fifth Edition, 2013), Introduction
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Stobaeus, iv. 32a. 11
Quoted by Stobaeus
Michael Szenberg (1934) American economist
7.Paul Samuelson is Politically Savvy.
Ten Ways to Know Paul A. Samuelson (2006)
“The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”
Stobaeus Ancient Greek anthologist
iv. 32a. 11
Quotes by and about Diogenes
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
Context: The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
“You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly”
John Rogers Searle (1932) American philosopher
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
Context: Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.