David Given Schwarm

1. There is no other way to get the information. 2. No one is put at risk, including the risk of social scorn. 3. The knowledge sought is important enough to justify deception. I am not sure that there is any case where deception will not undermine the research framework to such an extent that…

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Frazer’s presentation of the magical and religious views of men is unsatisfactory…it makes these views appear as errors

I venture to think, on the contrary, that men first acknowledged a single god, and that human weakness later adopted several.

A science of the “human” is not possible, Foucault argues, not because man is qualitatively different from everything else in the cosmos, but because he is precisely the same as everything else.

Well we all need someone we can dream on.

Madness is the punishment of a disorderly and useless science.

We have onto to speak of an object to think that we are being objective. But, because we chose it in the first place, the object reveals more about us than we do about it.

Today we are going to Disneyland for Kates birthday – we will be meeting some of her friends and having lunch at Ariels Grotto, which has been renamed the princess kitchen or something. Kate is so excited – she has learned to sing the happy birthday song (with the cha-cha-cha ending). Jack is also really…

I had come to New York at the start of the e1960’s, eager to put to work the writer I had, since adolescence, pledged myself to become. My idea of a writer” Someone interested in “everything.” I had always had interests of many kinds, so it was natural for me to conceive of the vocation…