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The theory of knowledge which I wish to propose is a largely Darwinian theory of the growth of knowledge. From the amoeba to Einstein, the growth of knowledge is always the same: we try to solve our problems, and to obtain, by a process of elimination, something approaching adequacy in our tentative solutions. by poker tables

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. by texas hold'em poker

Mankind are, in all ages, caught by the same baits: the same tricks played over and over again, still trepan them. by internet poker

Anyone who has had a glimpse of the range and subtlety of the thought of Plato or of a Hegel will long ago have despaired of becoming a philosopher. by texas holdem

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. by party poker

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. by poker tips

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. by poker supplies

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. by roulette

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. by pacific poker

Philosophy, beginning in wonder ... is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. Its mind is full of air that plays round every subject. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices....A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. by roulette

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. by gambling

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things. by gambling