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  •   Sentences which simply express moral judgements do not say anything. Theyare pure expressions of feeling and as such donot come under the categoryof truth and falsehood.

    - SirAlfred Jules Ayer
      Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

  • Estou farto do lirismo comedido Do lirismo bem comportado Do lirismo funciona  rio p u blico com livro de ponto expediente protocolo e manifesta c° o‹  es de apre c° o ao Sr Diretor. Estou farto do lirismo que pa  ra e vai averiguar no diciona  rio o cunho verna  culo de um voca  bulo. Abaixo os puristas I'm sick of cautious lyricism of well-behaved lyricism of a civil servant lyricism complete with time card office hours set procedures and expressions of esteem for Mr Boss, Sir. I'm sick of the lyricism that has to stop in midstream to look up the precise meaning of a word. Down with purists!

    - Manuel Bandeira
      Libertinagem,'Poe  tica' (translated as'Poetics',1989).

  • It is only in science, I find, that we can get outside ourselves. It's realistic, and to a great degree verifiable, and it has this tremendous stage on which it plays. I have the same feelingto a certain degreeabout some religious expressions†but only to a certain degree. For me, the proper study of mankind is science, which also means that the proper study of mankind is man.

    - Isidor Isaac Rabi
    Quoted inJeremy Bernstein Experiencing Science (1978).

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