Blaumann Knife Quotes & Sayings

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet. — Nancy White

It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural category? Or must truth, as something unattainable, be relegated to the subjective sphere, its place taken by an attempt to build peace and justice using whatever instruments are available to power? By relying on truth, does not politics, in view of the impossibility of attaining consensus on truth, make itself a tool of particular traditions that in reality are merely forms of holding on to power?
And yet, on the other hand, what happens when truth counts for nothing? What kind of justice is then possible? Must there not be common criteria that guarantee real justice for all - criteria that are independent of the arbitrariness of changing opinions and powerful lobbies? Is it not true that the great dictatorships were fed by the power of the ideological lie and that only truth was capable of bringing freedom? — Pope Benedict XVI

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them. — John Dewey

If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'. — Herge

Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success. — Bryant McGill

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems — Bill Gates

Pleasure, of course, is a slippery word ... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. — Billy Collins

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.' — Tarsem Singh

Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept. A monkish thought that he dismissed. — Kate Atkinson

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors — Friedrich August Von Hayek

A room without books is like a body without a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself. — William Golding

I do watch what I eat, but I don't make it myself. When I eat out, I just have to make sure the things I buy are good and healthy. — Anton Du Beke

Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content. — Gerald Durrell