Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

Gary L. Francione

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Gary L. Francione

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

Girish Kohli

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

George Herbert Mead

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

George William Russell

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

Georg Henrik von Wright

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

John Locke

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

John Pomfret

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Jef Raskin

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Josiah Royce

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Josiah Royce

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

John Searle

Tentei não fazer nada na minha vida que envergonhasse a criança que fui. Quando me for deste mundo, partirão duas pessoas. Sairei de mão dada, com essa criança que fui.

Jose Saramago

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

Jean Vanier

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

David Almond

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Antin

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

David Bohm

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

David Bohm