The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going to university and studying. I didn't do it because it was a back-up plan. In some… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit,… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Film analysis enables us to recognize how the filmmakers have their magic on us, how all the constituent elements of the film… — Jon Lewis Copy Share Image
Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges.… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction,… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
I think this book, Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.", if you have a friend who is a… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with… — Stephen Cambone Copy Share Image
I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal… — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
