If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money… — Steven Raichlen Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Our knees brush underneath the bar. Mine, bare past the hem of my skirt, and his, clad in the ugly-hot pants all… — Grace Reilly Copy Share Image
The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality. — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If there's any indirect way I can motivate or inspire Olympic athletes... that is one of the greatest honors. Even Natalie Coughlin… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
