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By Bentham, beyond all others, men have been led to ask themselves, in regard to any ancient or received opinion, Is it true? and by Coleridge, What is the meaning of it?--John Stuart Mill

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I think that I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.--Richard Feynman

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Each group thinks its own folkways the only right ones, and if it observes that other groups have other folkways this excites its scorn.--William Graham Sumner

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Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift...that's nausea.--Jean-Paul Sartre

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When they are 'articulating the specific nature of their own identities', people are particularly prone to fantasy and wishful thinking, and truth scarcely gets a look in.--Simon Blackburn

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.--Henry David Thoreau

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.--Euripides

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Religion is the only means of introducing some notion of the high significance of life into the uncultivated heads of the masses, deep sunk as they are in mean pursuits and uncultivated drudgery.--Arthur Schopenhauer

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The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.--John Searle

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We had the philosopher Roger Scruton for supper once and persuaded him to write my daughter's A level philosophy essay. She got a D.--Sue Arnold