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Böyükağa Quliyev

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“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

tags: empiricism, hume, idealism, skepticism

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“For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adventures he encounters, but the inner depth in that life, by which something great may be made out of even the paltriest and most banal of occurrences.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

tags: life

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“Book speaks in silence.”
― Melainie.Cj

tags: books

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“To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

tags: rationalism

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“If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

tags: phenomena, rationalism, science

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