notriddle comments on Feeling Rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 13 March 2010 01:46:49AM -2 points [-]

"P. C. Hodgell said: "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be." "

That sounds very much like a quote from a Russian anarchist which was I think mentioned in one of Turgenev's books, possibly "Fathers and Sons". Here we go:

"Anything that can be broken, should be broken." ~Dmitri Pisarev

Solomon says: nothing new under the sun.

Comment author: notriddle 30 April 2013 02:15:56AM 1 point [-]

Isn't "by the truth" an extremely important qualifier?! I'm really curious how the two quotes are the same.