Has beens Quote by David Berlinski Download Open image “No man is obliged to be what he might have been.” — David Berlinski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Has beens Men Might Might have been Obliged
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“The argument that Hawking has offered may be conveyed by question-and-answer, as in the Catholic catechism. A Catechism of Quantum Cosmology Q: From… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin’s… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
