Reductive Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
-
Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So…
— Thomas Nagel
-
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be…
— Thomas Nagel
-
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt,…
— John Yau
-
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly…
— Robert Jay Lifton
-
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
— Ben Okri
-
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
— Robert Redford
-
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non…
— Maira Kalman
-
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to…
— Tom Robbins
-
Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Who Wrote These Reductive Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Reductive Quotes as follows: