Weekly Quotes
8th January
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice, and so on).
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice, and so on).
Against Method (1975), Verso Books (First Verso edition, third impression), 1980. pp. 32-33.
Anarchist? More and more I am convinced I am a rationalist of a kind, that is, I am an anarchist not just for anarchism’s sake, but for a reason and the same reason will soon convince me to give up anarchism. So it is quite possible that I shall change my dedication to you: ‘. . . friend and fellow rationalist’ and so confuse everyone.
Anarchist? More and more I am convinced I am a rationalist of a kind, that is, I am an anarchist not just for anarchism’s sake, but for a reason and the same reason will soon convince me to give up anarchism. So it is quite possible that I shall change my dedication to you: ‘. . . friend and fellow rationalist’ and so confuse everyone.
Letter to Imre Lakatos, January 1973, I. Lakatos & P. Feyerabend, For and Against Method (ed. M. Motterlini), Chicago – London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. p. 311.
As far as I am concerned, anarchism is just another passing stage in my life (after Dingler, Mach, Reichenbach, Wittgenstein, Sir K).
As far as I am concerned, anarchism is just another passing stage in my life (after Dingler, Mach, Reichenbach, Wittgenstein, Sir K).
Letter to Imre Lakatos end of February 1973, I. Lakatos & P. Feyerabend, For and Against Method (ed. M. Motterlini), Chicago – London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. p. 323.