

“All so-called ‘quantitative’ data, when scrutinized, turn out to be composites of ‘qualitative’ – i.e., contextually located and indexical – interpretations produced by situated researchers, coders, government officials and others. The”
― The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration
― The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration

“But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.”
― Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
― Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

“The complete use of pure reason brings us finally from physical to metaphysical knowledge. But the concepts of metaphysical knowledge do not in themselves fully satisfy the demand of our integral being. They are indeed entirely satisfactory to the pure reason itself, because they are the very stuff of its own existence. But our nature sees things through two eyes always, for it views them doubly as idea and as fact and therefore every concept is incomplete for us and to a part of our nature almost unreal until it becomes an experience.”
― A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy
― A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy

“The day we find a great number of men and women with this psychology who cannot devote themselves to anything else than the service of mankind and emancipation of the suffering humanity; that day shall inaugurate the era of liberty.”
― Why I am an Atheist
― Why I am an Atheist
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