Theoretical Quotes

248 Theoretical quotes by 204 unique authors

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of… — Talcott Parsons
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with… — Miuccia Prada
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes… — Colin Quinn
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved… — Dennis Ritchie
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages,… — Bertrand Russell
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have… — Sam Shepard
Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented… — Eliot Spitzer
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of… — Thomas Szasz
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of… — Ayelet Waldman
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement… — Kim Stanley Robinson
Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the… — Tom Robbins
Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to… — Karl Marx
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
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have… — Charlotte Bronte
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe â€” the gods… — Daniel Dennett
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept… — Kathy Reichs
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and… — Zadie Smith
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help… — Michel Foucault

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