Nooit Vergeten Quotes & Sayings

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason. — Immanuel Kant

A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs. — Nicholson Baker

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga. — Sri Aurobindo

Why didn't you just ask?" "Because I don't do that. Asking questions is at the forefront of developing relationships. — Tarryn Fisher

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science. — Paul Samuelson

A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one else cares (or even knows) about anyway. A good philosophical thought will always be subject to criticisms (as Heidegger's or Whitehead's best insights all are) but they are of such elegance and depth that they change the terms of debate, and function as a sort of "obligatory passage point" (Latour's term) in the discussions that follow.
Or in other words, the reason Being and Time is still such a classic, with hundreds of thousands or millions of readers almost a century later, is not because Heidegger made "fewer mistakes" than others of his generation. Mistakes need to be cleaned up, but that is not the primary engine of personal or collective intellectual progress. — Graham Harman

Dw i'n dy garu di am byth," he said. "I love you. Always. — Cassandra Clare

If we're doing we're living and if we're living we're winning, right? — Emma Hooper

Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word. — Jane Leavy

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them. — Rachel Vail