Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program… — Paul Billheimer
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that… — Guy Claxton
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,… — Bertrand Russell
of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct — Charles Olson
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how… — Barbara Kruger
God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence. But… — Frederick Lenz
The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be… — Nancy Etcoff
We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity… — Carmen Lawrence
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were… — Thomas A. Edison
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine… — Susan Neiman
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we… — Doris Lessing
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be… — George Steiner
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory… — Milton Friedman
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. — Henry Louis Gates
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be… — Henry Louis Gates
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to… — Norman Douglas
I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit,… — Roger Federer

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