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William Sargant

William Sargant quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.”
-- William Sargant

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“...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.”
-- William Sargant

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“In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.”
-- William Sargant

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“In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.”
“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”
“The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.”
“What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.”
“Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.”

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