Quote by Freda Adler
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preo

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. – Freda Adler

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – Freda Adler

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. – Freda Adler

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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. – Freda Adler

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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness. – Robert Delaunay

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Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. – James Northcote

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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. – William Ellery Channing

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We cant talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. – Philip K. Dick

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