Engineering Quote by Paul Ricoeur Download Open image “The text is a limited field of possible constructions.” — Paul Ricoeur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engineering Field Limited Possible Text
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only poesis. no… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world -… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image