Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Saul Kripke

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Stephen King

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Siddhartha Mukherjee

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Slavoj Zizek

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Thomas Nagel

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Theodore Roethke

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Karen Armstrong

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Karl Jaspers

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Karl Jaspers

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Kay Redfield Jamison

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

Kay Redfield Jamison

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Kay Redfield Jamison