Pretheoretical Quotes & Sayings

Grief is a sword, or it is nothing. — Paul Monette

But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I'm subterraneously unattainable because of what I know. — Clarice Lispector

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you. — Sean Young

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth ... Each person enters the world called. — James Hillman

Beings in existence thus are annihilated from moment to moment, and this gives rise to time. The process whereby time is engendered by this moment-to-moment annihilation may be likened to a row of dots and a line. — Yukio Mishima

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers

One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should work the same way in epistemology. We want to know what knowledge actually amounts to, not what our folk concept of knowledge is, since, just as with our pretheoretical concept of acidity, it might contain all sorts of misunderstandings and leave out all manner of important things. — Hilary Kornblith

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings. — E.L. Doctorow

That's pretty. He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name. — George R R Martin

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology. — Hilary Kornblith

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope. — Jeremy Corbyn

No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising. — Hilary Kornblith

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught — Sunday Adelaja

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. — Otto Hahn

My feeling is, personally, I want to die first ... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous. — Bill Cosby