Epistomology Quotes & Sayings

(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit. — Jack McKeon

Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy ... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. — Patrick Rothfuss

Faith taints or at worst removes our curiosity about the world, what we should value, and what type of life we should lead. Faith replaces wonder with epistemological arrogance disguised as false humility. Faith immutably alters the starting conditions for inquiry by uprooting a hunger to know and sowing a warrantless confidence. — Peter Boghossian

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt. — Ayn Rand

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability. — Raheel Farooq

The human body lives in the mind of one who possesses a human body, and to live inside the human body possessed of the mind that perceives another human body is to live in a world of others. — Paul Auster

When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else. — Patty Houser

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head. — Jeff Cooper

My head is a prison I've been locked in from the start,
So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.
(attrib: E. Tancarville) — Dan Garfat-Pratt