Empiricism And Rationalism Quotes & Sayings

While the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making. — Mary Parker Follett

You'll go off to your S&M high school, and I'm going to stay and lose my mind. I'm going to be so socially destroyed, I'm going to turn radioactive." "Well," said Laurence. "I don't know that it's possible to 'turn radioactive,' unless you're exposed to certain isotopes, and in that case you probably wouldn't survive. — Charlie Jane Anders

We will take the good-will for the deed. — Francois Rabelais

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio ... well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else ... My state of being has been elevated, because I've been exercising, writing songs ... No masterpiece ever came overnight. A person's masterpiece is something that you nurture along. — Brian Wilson

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. — Immanuel Kant

Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering the nature of things in light of higher principles; instead, it caused them to leave the field of battle without any defense before the onslaught of secularism, rationalism, and empiricism, which were, as a result, able to gain a remarkably easy victory. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Say what you want to happen as though it already is. Do not focus on what you don't want, only what you do. — Jes Fuhrmann

What would it take to live in a world fueled by lies? — Anonymous

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective. — Adrian Younge

If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing — Lisa Kleypas

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. — Evgeny Morozov

Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us) and empiricism (how things are), we have been blaming the world for not fitting the beds of "rational" models, have tried to change humans to fit technology, fudged our ethics to fit our needs for employment, asked economic life to fit the theories of economists, and asked human life to squeeze into some narrative. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

She was dressed as a nearly invisible shower, wearing only a raincoat, and I sold her an umbrella that would shield her from heavenly I love yous. — Jarod Kintz

In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction. — John Quiggin

You might be a redneck if your most expensive shoes have numbers on the heels. — Jeff Foxworthy