Another man Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine Download Open image “One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.” — Willard Van Orman Quine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Another man Book Books Fancy Flight Men Observation
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single… — Ben Loory Copy Share Image
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.” — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz.,… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
One day I woke up and Juventus wanted me, another Manchester United and what I know is that there were approaches made. But an… — Raul Jimenez Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets - their… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you aren't in love, Willow Vaughn, then my name isn't Miriam Brigham." Willow started out of her daydreaming and glanced up from the… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
“Hell, I bet there's another man right now on the other side of this planet, standing in the pouring rain, fighting desperately for the… — EL Montes Copy Share Image
The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become. — Dan Payne Copy Share Image
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to… — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
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