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• I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

  Moby

  Children, Slavery, Vote

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo

  Culture, Illusion

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

  Frans de Waal

  Order, Killers, Apes

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• A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

  A.J. Ayer

  Believe, Afterlife, World

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• The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Practice, Ideas

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• The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

  George Orwell

  Believe, Government

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Men, Play

  Ernest Hemingway, Séan A. Hemingway (2003). “Hemingway on war”, Scribner Book Company

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• It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

  John Steinbeck

  Sadness, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.330, Penguin

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• In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. The two will remain two. Howsoever near, the two will remain two. Even in sexual communion they will be two. This two-ness, this duality will never last. So a relationship is only creating a fallacious oneness. It is not there. Oneness can never exist between two selves. Oneness can only exist between two no-selves.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Self, Two

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• It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Men, Differences, Psychology

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• So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Mean, Healing

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• Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Study, Economics

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.11, Crown Business

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• "Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fun, Car, Getting Older

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

  Tone Bell

  Hate, Believe, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Reality, Stories, Fantasy

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• Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Mean, Greatness

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• The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, America, Issues

  "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

  Eric Voegelin

  Christian, Problem, Transcendental

  Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press

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• In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

  Alice Sebold

  Comforting, Portraits, Remember

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• Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

  David Riesman

  Men, Culture, Debt

  David Riesman (1966). “Individualism Reconsidered, and Other Essays”

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• To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Practice, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.”, p.537

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• I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Unpacking, Way

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

  Aaron Sorkin

  America, Goal, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.

  Robert Bazell

  Objectivity, Giving, Different

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