Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
Halsey
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
Ferdinand Mount
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry
That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
Dan Hill
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Natsuo Kirino
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Adam Clarke
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray
I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
Carlos Santana
Santana
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
Karl Liebknecht
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Vernon Howard
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.
George Julius Poulett Scrope
A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.
Lord Byron
The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
Laura Robson
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
William Shakespeare
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.
Willard Van Orman Quine
