Entities Quotes

150 Entities quotes by 128 unique authors

If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which… — Mark Epstein
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same… — Rudolf Steiner
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief… — Tom G. Palmer
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man;… — Jeremy Bentham
Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything… — Gore Vidal
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has… — Greta Christina
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone… — Niles Eldredge
I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future. — Kalle Lasn
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.… — Alfred North Whitehead
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities… — Donna J. Haraway
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know -… — Scott Ian
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as… — John C. Lilly
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. — Sydney Schanberg
Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact… — Unknown Author
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. — Henri Poincare
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country… — Denis Halliday

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