"Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled."
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"We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things."
"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."
"Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape."
"There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes."
"Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy."
"You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe."
"Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism."
"Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme."
"The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly."
"There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes."
"There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence."
"Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence."
"Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person."
"Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening."