quotes about Pseudo
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Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?
-- Alfred KazinSource : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
-- Anurag KashyapSource : "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.
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My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?
-- Charles FortSource : Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin
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A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
-- James Mark BaldwinSource : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
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I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.
-- Raymond GeussSource : Raymond Geuss (2009). “Outside Ethics”, p.9, Princeton University Press
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The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
-- Slavoj ŽižekSource : Slavoj Žižek (2014). “Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism”, p.170, Penguin UK
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Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
-- David DemingSource : "Year of global cooling". m.washingtontimes.com. December 19, 2007.
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In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.
-- Marlene van Niekerk -
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One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.
-- Alva Noe