One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances..

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand..

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards..

There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scie….

The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there a….

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them..

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them aw….

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological pre….

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests..

There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes ev….

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyran….

A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not….

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, ….

I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in Dadaistic a….

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past..

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "ob….

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedl….

Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what ….

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a….

Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build hous….

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise..