Modality Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. — Charles Olson
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Modality Quotes by James Joyce
• 1 Modality Quote by Peter Thiel
• 1 Modality Quote by Joseph Needham
• 1 Modality Quote by Charles Olson
• 1 Modality Quote by William Gibson
• 1 Modality Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty