Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines,… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen.… — Paul Otlet Copy Share Image
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
