Modality Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and…
— Peter Thiel
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To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World…
— Joseph Needham
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Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her…
— James Joyce
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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
— Charles Olson
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I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I…
— William Gibson
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.
— James Joyce
Who Wrote These Modality Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Modality Quotes as follows: