Nominalism Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

The menu is not the meal. — Alan W. Watts

For almost a year, I sporadically made these rather lame video blogs in my dorm. These video blogs were reflective of most video blogs during that time in that they had no real structure and were kind of just all over the place. — Ray William Johnson

My name is Catbug. What's yours? — Breehn Burns

I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself. — Brad Pitt

The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the mist it disappeared again, as if the world created itself and was blotted out again. — Janet Fitch

If no sing, all youth condemned into poverty. Denied possible advancement and self-realization — Chuck Palahniuk

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. — David Dinkins

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

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is. — Gerhard Richter

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or Plato. And they don't smile much.
Nominalists have more fun. They are known as Aristotle or Decimus-et-Ultimus Barziza, or as Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montague, or perhaps by one name in childhood and several others in the course of life.
A firm Realist misses out on one of the most satisfying of all human activities
the assumption of secret identities. A man who has lived and never been someone else has never lived.
It is true that occasionally there can be embarrassment in secret identities, but only a Realist will take the whole thing seriously enough to hit you. So have your fun, and avoid Realists. — Alexei Panshin

Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself. — Marcus Aurelius

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity. — John Newcombe

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone. — Alana Stewart

Even if he was a thief, he was my thief. I could not push him away anymore. — Janet Lee Carey

Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell. — Alexei Panshin

The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism. — Willard Van Orman Quine

How else to explain the great mysteries of life and death except through the providence of God? How else to try to make sense of it all? Sunday — Karen J. Hasley

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. — Lao-Tzu