Flossmann M3 R Quotes & Sayings

To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understanding inescapably involves reasoning.
We have to 'read' what we feel and seem to see, and ask what those perceptions indicate and how we may take them into account without being overwhelmed by them. One issue relates to the reliability of our feelings and impressions. A sense of injustice could serve as a signal that moves us, but a signal does demand critical examination, and there has to be some scrutiny of the soundness of a
conclusion based mainly on signals...We also have to ask what kinds of reasoning should count in the assessment of ethical and political concepts such as justice and injustice. — Amartya Sen

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. — Kenneth L. Pike

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent. — Jim Morrison

Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw me out of your backpack. Pitch me in the airport trash bin. Leave me on a bench in Central Park!
What do I care?
No. I don't want you to do all that. Don't do that.
DON'T DO IT! — Anne Rice

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse. — N. T. Wright

Hey Rid?"
She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could ...
"Yeah, Shrinky Dink?"
"You're not all bad."
She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way. — Kami Garcia

Life is a dream, realise it. — Mother Teresa

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that! — Shannon Hoon

It's easy to respect a general, but it's hard to love them. — Andrew Gurland

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. — Sidney Poitier

A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop. — J.K. Rowling

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. — William Adams

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei