Frequently Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Download Open image ““What we call ‘natural’ is frequently no more than bad theory.”” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad Theory Frequently Natural Natural Frequently Nature Theory
“what is natural in one place can seem unnatural in another, and some concepts travel rather poorly, if at all.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Naturalism, therefore, can never be anything more than a guiding prejudice, an established principle only in the sense that it must be indefensibly presumed… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Nature will always be natural, the tutor had told me. For what is ever not natural? Even lies are just a kind of weather.… — Miranda Mellis Copy Share Image
“Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
“Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology’s… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Man is hidden, well hidden, & this time we must make no mistake about it: this does not mean that he is there beneath… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“We do not have the right to level out all experience into a single world.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“The world and reason are not problems; and though we might call them mysterious, this mystery is essential to them, there can be no… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
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