Harvey Cox Quotes
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
Quotes to Explore
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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A good leader must be fair.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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Now, bitter, but useful, mortification is the steppingstone to knowledge, even in a child.
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The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
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The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
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The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
