“A pior forma de covardia é testar o poder na fraqueza do outro.”
“É mais útil algumas vezes a extirpação de um erro que a descoberta de muitas verdades.”
"Máximas, pensamentos e reflexões" - Página 22, de Mariano José Pereira da Fonseca Maricá, Sousa da Silveira, Publicado por Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Casa de Rui Barbosa, 1958 - 512 páginas
Fonte: Terra http://exclusivo.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI1863433-EI1118,00.html
There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sec. VIII, par. 75 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding#PART_II._4
How often are our reasonings erroneous ! I venture to affirm, that we are much more frequently deceived by these than by our senses. But does it follow that our reasonings are always fallacious, and that we can have no dependence on any truth discovered to us by the understanding
"Letters of Euler on different subjects in natural philosophy: Addressed to a German princess. With notes, and a life of Euler", Volume 2 - página 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=IUknAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17, de Leonhard Euler, Editora J. & J. Harper, 1833
“Os erros são os portais da descoberta.”
“Falsas regras impostas, baseada na aparência da razão.”
obtruding false rules prank'd in reason's garb.
citando TODD, in: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors - Vol. II, Página 121 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=DswIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA121, linha 226, de John Milton, Henry John Todd - Publicado por Printed for C. and J. Rivington; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; J. and W.T. Clarke; Longman and Co.; 1826
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