Kurt Vonnegut book Deadeye Dick
Describing an accident in which the narrator, as a child, accidentally shot a woman
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“I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, book On Certainty
387.
On Certainty (1969)
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volume III, chapter VI: "Miscellanea", page 252 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=264&itemID=F1452.3&viewtype=image; letter to William Ogle (22 February 1882) <br class="br">Ogle had translated Aristotle's Parts of Animals and sent Darwin a copy. <br class="br">The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
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“I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.”
Henry George (1839–1897) American economist
Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Context: I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.
Whoever, laying aside prejudice and self-interest, will honestly and carefully make up his own mind as to the causes and the cure of the social evils that are so apparent, does, in that, the most important thing in his power toward their removal. This primary obligation devolves upon us individually, as citizens and as men. Whatever else we may be able to do, this must come first. For "if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch."
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Uebrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht ein Mal zu sehn vermögen...
Vol. II, Ch. III, para. 31 (On Genius), 1844
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“I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.”
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