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Theories Quotes by Walter Pater
- Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces…
- Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
- With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
- Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi
- A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran
- There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. — Charley Lau
- In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts
- A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson
- Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which… — Arthur Dove
- Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda