Georges Canguilhem quotes

Georges Canguilhem quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.”
-- Georges Canguilhem

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“In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained by relations of pure causality, the construction of a machine can be understood neither without purpose nor without man. A machine is made by man and for man, with a view toward certain ends to be obtained, in the form of effects to be producedâ€¦ a mechanical model of any phenomena is explanatory only so long as we take machines as already granted.”
-- Georges Canguilhem

Source : "Knowledge of Life".

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“An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.”
-- Georges Canguilhem

Source : Georges Canguilhem (2000). “A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem”

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“Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.”
-- Georges Canguilhem

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“Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.”
-- Georges Canguilhem

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“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”
-- Georges Canguilhem

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“Error often is to be preferred to indecision.”

Source : Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837). “Memoirs of Aaron Burr”, p.337
“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”
“Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.”
“What you resist persist.”
“What we resist persists.”
“It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.”
“I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”

Source : "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.
“Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives”
“The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.”
“You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.”

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