Zeno Vendler Quotes

Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.

Zeno Vendler

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• We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.

  

  Adam Grant
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• My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
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• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
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• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
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• Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Black
  • Color
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• I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

  

  Candice Accola
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• One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

  

  Madi Diaz
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  • Past
  • Feelings

• We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doesn't crack down, this party will be amazing - the biggest party in town for a long time. If they do crack down, a lot of people are going to feel a lot of pain.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
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• There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

  

  Candice Olson
  • House
  • Black
  • Color

• Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Color
  • Bold

• As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • World
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Together

• The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Silence

• Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.

  

  Zeno Vendler
  • Pain
  • Feelings
  • Color