Problems can never be solved with the same mind that created them Albert Einstein
In our present world science is so dominant that we give it the authority to explain even when it denies what is most immediate and direct -- our everyday, immediate experience.Varela, Thomson & Rosch
You know, I've never heard anyone near death say -- and I've never heard of anyone who's ever known anyone near death say -- 'I wish I had spent more time at work.' Irving D. Yalom
(Psycho)Analysts seem more certain of everything than I am of anything. Irving D. Yalom
Aan logica alleen kleeft altijd iets gebrekkigs, wat tot zwaarmoedigheid stemt. Fjodor M. Dostojewski
When I say that science has gradually converted into a slow-acting poison, I mean that the attribution of certainty to scientific knowledge by the common wisdom, an attribution now made so nearly universally that it has become a commonsense dogma, has virtually delegitimized all other ways of understanding. Joseph Weizenbaum
The declaration of independence of the scientific man, his emancipation from philosophy, is one of the subtler after-effects of democratic organization and disorganization: the self-glorification and self-conceitedness of the learned man is now everywhere in full bloom, and in its best springtime -- which does not mean to imply that in this case self-praise smells sweet. Here also the instinct of the populace cries, 'Freedom from all masters!' and after science has, with the happiest results, resisted theology, whose 'hand-maid' it had been too long, it now proposes in its wantonness and indiscretion to lay down laws for philosophy, and in its turn to play the 'master' -- what am I saying! to play the PHILOSOPHER on its own account. Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the scientific man? Firstly, a commonplace type of man, with commonplace virtues: that is to say, a non-ruling, non-authoritative, and non-self-sufficient type of man he possesses industry, patient adaptableness to rank and file, equability and moderation in capacity and requirement he has the instinct for people like himself, and for that which they require-for instance: the portion of independence and green meadow without which there is no rest from labour, the claim to honour and consideration (which first and foremost presupposes recognition and recognisability), the sunshine of a good name, the perpetual ratification of his value and usefulness, with which the inward DISTRUST which lies at the bottom of the heart of all dependent men and gregarious animals, has again and again to be overcome. The learned man, as is appropriate, has also maladies and faults of an ignoble kind: he is full of petty envy, and has a lynx-eye for the weak points in those natures to whose elevations he cannot attain. Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jezus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructing mind. Albert Einstein
Krishnamurti's objection to science is twofold. First, it is the siren-song which tempts us away from the world of suffering whose resolution will require our total commitment and intelligence. (...) Second, science is knowledge, knowledge is put together by thought, and thought is trapped in the past, while truth lies in the living present. from Weber, R. Dialogues with scientists and sages
No experimental methodology ever has or ever will succeed in capturing the essence of the human soul, or ever so much as tracing out an approximately faithfull picture of its complex manifestations. C. G. Jung
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes. E. M. Forster
Tot een passie te geraken is vaak erger dan in gevangenschap geraken. Fjodor M. Dostojewski
Un peu de science écarte de la religion et beaucoup y ramène. Gustave Flaubert
God klinkt als een antwoord, dat is het verderfelijkste aan dat woord: het is zo vaak als antwoord gebruikt. Hij had een naam moeten hebben die als een vraag klonk. Cees Nooteboom
De hoogte van een menselijke ziel is ten dele daaraan af te meten, in hoeverre en voor wie ze in staat is, eerbied en verering te betuigen of aandacht te hebben. Fjodor, M. Dostojewski
I think, if you can afford it, a trip to India is on the whole most edifying and, from a psychological point of view, most advisable, although it may give you considerable headaches. C. G. Jung
He oma, vertel nog eens van de grote schoonmaak. Van Kooten & De Bie
Niets is zo moeilijk als zich niet te bedriegen. Ludwig Wittgenstein
I myself still have a mother, and she bars my way to the longed-for rest, to eternal nothingness. I somehow could not forgive myself if I were to die before her. Sigmund Freud
De mensen tegenwoordig geloven, dat de wetenschappers er zijn om hen te onderrichten, de dichters en musici etcetera om hen blij te maken. Dat deze laatsten hun iets hebben te leren, die idee komt niet bij hen op. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Het komt nooit meer goed. Gerard Reve
De hele droom van de democratie bestaat uit het verheffen van de proletariër tot het domheidspeil van de burgerman. Gustave Flaubert
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes -- good will among men and peace on earth. Albert Einstein
Scientific education as we know it today has precisely this aim. It simplifies 'science' by simplifying its participants (...) A person's religion, for example, or his metaphysics, or his sense of humour (his natural sense of humour and not the inbred and always rather nasty kind of jocularity one finds in specialized professions) must not have the slightest connection with his scientific activity. His imagination is restrained, and even his language ceases to be his own. Paul Feyerabend
Professional anarchists oppose any kind of restriction and they demand that the individual be permitted to develop freely, unhampered by laws, duties or obligations. And yet they swallow without protest all the severe standards which scientists and logicians impose upon research and upon any kind of knowledge-creating and knowledge-chaining activity. Paul Feyerabend