Quote by Michael Polanyi
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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communication
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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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Faith
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. – Samuel Beckett

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Intelligence

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. – James Clavell

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Intelligence

Were not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. – John Mica

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. – Herbert Read

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Peter 3:15 – Bible

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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. – Blaise Pascal

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. – T. S. Eliot

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Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. – Jimmy Wales, speech

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