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Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.
— 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
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
Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
— Imre Kertesz
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
— Imre Lakatos
If I find out that Whin has been sedated or restrained I'll ride you naked through the streets of Imre like a little pink pony.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
— Imre Lakatos
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
— Imre Lakatos
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
— Imre Kertesz
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
— Imre Lakatos
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
A book is either autobiography or a novel.
— Imre Kertesz
I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
— Imre Kertesz
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
— Imre Lakatos
I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.
— Imre Kertesz
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
— Imre Kertesz
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
— 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
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
— Imre Lakatos
Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.
— Imre Kertesz
Because Imre offered what every artist needs most - an appreciative, affluent audience.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
— Imre Kertesz
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts
— Imre Lakatos
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
— Imre Lakatos
In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
— Imre Kertesz
It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all.
— Imre Kertesz
I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!
— Imre Kertesz
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
— Imre Lakatos
The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.
— Imre Kertesz