Nelson Goodman Quotes
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
Quotes to Explore
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
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There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
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We fight like we're a married couple.
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Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.
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I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
