Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into on...
It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theo...
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you inten...
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which...
We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain event...
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individua...
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.
When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.
