Modes Quotes

159 quotes by 133 authors

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there… — Thomas Berry
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form… — Baruch Spinoza
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary… — Peter Greenaway
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. — Max Weber
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. Thatâ€™s what I love about cinema. It changes in the… — Ira Sachs
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. — M H Abrams
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate… — William Godwin
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system… — Kurt GÃ¶del
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it… — Noam Chomsky
To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that… — Anandamayi Ma
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what… — Michel Foucault
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by… — Neel Burton
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause… — Roger Bacon
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. — Paul de Man
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain… — Arthur Balfour
Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've… — Theresa Rebeck
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. — Baruch Spinoza

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