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“[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield, into a parliament or public square, and demand, "Where is he? Where is he?" "Where is...”
“Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!”
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (g...”
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
“You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.Well, didnt you? You were there.No, I didntno well, maybe I did, but it didnt feel like it.Why should you expect it to? I...”
“You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you? You were there.”“No, I didn’t—no… well, maybe I did, but it didn’t feel like it.”“Why should you expe...”
