“There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the… — Xinran Copy Share Image
You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In thinking the of the eternal, we must link the eternal with the accidentality of our thinking” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas. — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Whereas some dwell on the bright side of life, enjoying an exciting spectrum of contingencies, and get all the breaks, others live… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them… — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design… — Paul Rabinow Copy Share Image
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost… — Russell Powell Copy Share Image
“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said,… — Venkatesh Narayanamurti Copy Share Image
“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is… — Shawn Michelle Smith Copy Share Image
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one.… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“In line with the total assault of scientific investigation and critical rationality on our most well-cherished and established intuitions, why should we… — Reza Negarestani Copy Share Image
“Like most visionary utopias, though. IDN (Integrated Data Network) was never to be. Perhaps it was simply too ambitious a project: infrastructures… — Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Copy Share Image
![“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design and archaeological in its method. Archaeological –and not transcendental– in the sense that it will not seek to identify the universal structures of all…” quote by Paul Rabinow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/paul-rabinow-113670_contingency_foucault-s-criticism-is-not-transcendent_1204346.jpg)
