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The world of ideas lives in a stormy relationship with the world of experience.
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...life is more impelling than theories.
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I know how difficult it is to dismiss opinions sustained for centuries by the authority of so many scholars. And surely, if I had not seen, so far as the instruments allowed, these wonders with my own eyes... I do not know whether I would have consented to your arguments.
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Our task is not to convert the world – a theory has never converted the world unless it was the world, life itself, that engendered the theory...
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...it requires some thought and reflection to discover the principles, by which we can reconcile reason to experience.
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...struggle, a life of struggle, is far more urgently needed by an active man than a well supplied table. This desire to see the world, to mix with its currents, to fight its battles is the imperative call to the young generation.
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None can judge with certainty who is right and who is wrong, who is nearest the truth, or which is the best way to achieve the greatest good for each and everyone. Freedom coupled with experience, is the only way of discovering the truth and what is best; and there can be no freedom if there is a denial of the freedom to err.
["The Idea of Good Government," by Errico Malatesta, from Umanita Nova 1920; included in 'Malatesta: Life and Ideas', Freedom Press.]
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What can we reason, but from what we know?
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...the moment we leave past experience as the foundation of our conjectures concerning the future, and, still more, if our conjectures absolutely contradict past experience, we are thrown upon a wide field of uncertainty, and any one supposition is then just as good as another.
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...unless this hypothesis is meaningless, it must be possible to confirm it in some way by observation...
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...the art of immersing oneself wholly in the stream of the present is known only to children...
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Can man, when possessing the full vigor of his faculties, form a rational judgment on any subject, until he has first collected all the facts respecting it which are known?
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...fact cannot be demonstrated -- it must be observed; it can then be used to test the validity of a deduction.
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Being is the sphere or subject-matter of knowledge, and knowledge is to know the nature of being...
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...he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
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...we trust that people will learn to walk the only way it is possible for them to learn: by walking.
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We old fellows have the compensation of some very wonderful memories.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
Chronology :
April 12, 2020 : Experience -- Added.
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