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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Caring Following Frustrated Generally Habits Her Indeed Inform Inherent Motives Nature Our Ours Pains Pleasure Put Reasons Shall She Sometimes Them Us Which Why Wills Without

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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Able Compulsion Ignorance Nothing Receive Resist Science Them Truths

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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

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Topics: Any Civilization Combined Energies Genius Individual Inherent Men Owe Progress Rather Science Tendency Than

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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

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Topics: Also Among Causes Criterion Distinguish Effects Ends How Know May Means Which

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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

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Topics: Assumption Become Concrete Direction Experience Further General Give Inherent Only Reached Research Science Systematic Then Truths Ultimate Until

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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Agreements Belief Confidence Degree Evidence High Kind Made Minds Only Ought Produce Produces Though Through Which

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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Aspirations Desires Emotions Fears Form Human Human Emotions Intellectual Philosophy Proper Questions Taking

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: About Agree Agreed Character Control Evidence Experience Facts Individual Intellect Made Merely No Control Observers Over Passive Senses Sensible Through Toward Which Will

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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Come Even Habit Life Limited Made Move Natural Natural Selection Nature Never Organic Part Pass Phenomena Rather Selection Should Stone Than Upwards Very

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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

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Topics: Accidental Accidents Causes Intelligence Man Only Relatively Science

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 10th, 1830

Died: September 12th, 1875

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