Crude Quote by Johan Huizinga Download Open image “A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.” — Johan Huizinga ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crude Mind Psychology Thinking Truth
“My argument is only that the intensity of belief in an idea or the reach of its acceptance is no guarantee of its validity.… — Bilahari P S Kausikan Copy Share Image
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons — William James Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true."… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.” — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.” — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew.… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
