Hermeneutic Circle Quotes & Sayings

Free will. It sucks because it means we're responsible for our actions. There is no destiny, just difficult decisions. — Shannon Delany

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death. — Sarah Dessen

Applause is a receipt, not a bill. — Dale Carnegie

And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner. — Stephen Chbosky

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family. — Rebecca Goldstein

Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government and that party can't keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you're dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you're not only a chump but you're a traitor to your race. — Malcolm X

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium. — Rudolf Clausius

Imagination is often truer than fact," said Gwendolen, decisively, though she could no more have explained these glib words than if they had been Coptic or Etruscan. "I shall be so glad to learn all about Tasso - and his madness especially. I suppose poets are always a little mad." "To be sure - 'the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling'; and somebody says of Marlowe - 'For that fine madness still he did maintain, Which always should possess the poet's brain.'" "But it was not always found out, was it?" said Gwendolen innocently. "I suppose some of them rolled their eyes in private. Mad people are often very cunning. — George Eliot