C. D. Broad Quotes

• the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

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  Real, Future, Past

  John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, C. D. Broad (1988). “The Nature of Existence:”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

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  Spiritual, Healthy, Good Man

  C. D. Broad (2000). “Five Types of Ethical Theory”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• ... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

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  Giving, Information, Superstitions

  C.D. Broad (2014). “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”, p.284, Routledge

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• Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.

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  Facts, Simultaneous, Telepathy

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• As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

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  Clever, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Scandal, Glory

  "The philosophy of Francis Bacon: An address delivered at Cambridge on the occasion of the Bacon tercentenary". Book by C. D. Broad, p. 67, October 5, 1926.

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• ...Por teoría 'tonta' entiendo aquella que se puede sostener en el momento en que uno habla o escribe profesionalmente, pero que sólo a un preso de un manicomio se le ocurriría llevar a la vida cotidiana. ... No debe suponerse que los hombres que sostienen estas teorías y creencias sean personas "tontas". Sólo hombres muy agudos y eruditos podrían haber pensado en algo tan extraño o haber defendido algo tan absurdo contra las continuas protestas del sentido común.

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  Silly, Mean, Writing

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• I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this.

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  Filosofía, Filosófica, Tomada

  "The Mind and Its Place in Nature".

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• Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Common Sense

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• Vale la pena recordar (aunque no hay nada que podamos hacer al respecto) que el mundo tal y como es en realidad puede ser fácilmente un lugar mucho más desagradable de lo que sería si el materialismo científico fuera toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad sobre él.

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  Truth, Would Be, World

  C. D. Broad (2011). “Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960”, p.319, Routledge

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