Calculable Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

• One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,… — Henry David Thoreau
• Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
• Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. — Francis Parker Yockey
• Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are… — Roald Hoffmann
• Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those… — B. H. Liddell Hart
• When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method… — Martin Heidegger
• These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,… — Lawrence Durrell
• Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less… — Milan Kundera
• Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange. — Gore Vidal

Who Wrote These Calculable Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 10 Calculable Quotes as follows:

• 1 Calculable Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Calculable Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Calculable Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Calculable Quote by Francis Parker Yockey
• 1 Calculable Quote by Roald Hoffmann
• 1 Calculable Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart
• 1 Calculable Quote by Martin Heidegger
• 1 Calculable Quote by Lawrence Durrell
• 1 Calculable Quote by Milan Kundera
• 1 Calculable Quote by Gore Vidal