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:

• 2 Reductive Quotes by Thomas Nagel
• 1 Reductive Quote by John Yau
• 1 Reductive Quote by Robert Jay Lifton
• 1 Reductive Quote by Ben Okri
• 1 Reductive Quote by Robert Redford
• 1 Reductive Quote by Maira Kalman
• 1 Reductive Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Reductive Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin