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Category Archive: Chauncey Wright

Chauncey Wright Quote: “Natural Selection never made it come…”

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.

August 22, 2021 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “We receive the truths of science…”

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

July 28, 2021 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “Let one persuade many, and he…”

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

July 11, 2021 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “All observers not laboring under hallucinations…”

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.

April 16, 2021 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “The pains of disconcerted or frustrated…”

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.

January 9, 2021 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “Such evidence is not the only…”

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.

April 28, 2020 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “And we owe science to the…”

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

December 24, 2019 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “By what criterion… can we distinguish…”

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?

August 23, 2019 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “The accidental causes of science are…”

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

April 16, 2019 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

Chauncey Wright Quote: “The questions of philosophy proper are…”

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

November 9, 2018 1830, American, Chauncey Wright, Quotes by Philosophers, September 10

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