Quote by Thomas Malthus
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foun

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus

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power
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge

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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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All along we find that social life – religion, politics, art – reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. – James M. Baldwin

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The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! – Jacques Lacan

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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is. – Wayne Dyer

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