Csernus Imre Quotes

It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all. ~ Imre Kertesz

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics. ~ Imre Lakatos

[T]he problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience is not a pseudo-problem of armchair philosophers: it has grave ethical and political implications. ~ Imre Lakatos

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. ~ Imre Lakatos

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. ~ Imre Lakatos

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot. ~ Imre Kertesz

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom. ~ Imre Kertesz

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions. ~ Imre Kertesz

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ~ Imre Lakatos

I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself. ~ Imre Kertesz

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. ~ Imre Kertesz

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself. ~ Imre Kertesz

As long as Imre was here with him, he was home. ~ Cole McCade

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. ~ Imre Kertesz

Because Imre offered what every artist needs most - an appreciative, affluent audience. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science. ~ Imre Lakatos

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. ~ Imre Lakatos

I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do. ~ Imre Kertesz

I will create what I am meant
to create.
But I will not destroy what I am meant
to destroy.
Nay, I will stare destruction in the eye
and say,
"I will create you again. ~ Beata N. Imre

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer. ~ Imre Kertesz

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ~ Imre Lakatos

A role model should be like the light at the end of a tunnel, guiding you when you are lost. ~ Cristina Imre

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with. ~ Imre Kertesz

I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it , I suffer from it die of it. ~ Imre Kertesz

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. ~ Imre Kertesz

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics. ~ Imre Lakatos

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. ~ Imre Lakatos

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains. ~ Imre Kertesz

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp. ~ Imre Kertesz

Give space to your thoughts, clear the noise in your head, chit-chat with your inner critic, decide and move on. ~ Cristina Imre

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one. ~ Imre Kertesz