critical

There is a strange intangible place on the outside edges of the human mind. It hangs there like a constant witness. It judges a person's every move, every thought and every action. Some people think it is __ig brother_ or God, but it is just a critical place inside the person__ own mind that judges and condemns. It is the very place where we judge ourselves when we cross Rainbow Bridge into Heaven.

When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now!

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle__ estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual__ gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive_ compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

I won__ desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won__ confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.

People who always want to be at convenient places won__ make a change at controversial places.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer__ yard.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area.

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

Women are too critical of themselves

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments _ the more stringent the tests, the better _ and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).. . . I stress that my use of the term 'science' is not limited to the natural sciences, but includes investigations aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of factual matters relating to any aspect of the world by using rational empirical methods analogous to those employed in the natural sciences. (Please note the limitation to questions of fact. I intentionally exclude from my purview questions of ethics, aesthetics, ultimate purpose, and so forth.) Thus, 'science' (as I use the term) is routinely practiced not only by physicists, chemists and biologists, but also by historians, detectives, plumbers and indeed all human beings in (some aspects of) our daily lives. (Of course, the fact that we all practice science from time to time does not mean that we all practice it equally well, or that we practice it equally well in all areas of our lives.)

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.