Wilhelm Dilthey Quotes
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
I never said half the things I said.
-
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
-
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
-
I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
-
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
-
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
-
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
-
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
-
I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
-
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
-
With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
-
I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
-
I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.
-
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
-
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
-
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-
I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.
-
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
-
It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds.
-
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
-
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
