Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
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• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  

  Gary Numan
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• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
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• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

  Walter Kohn
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• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
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• Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
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• Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

  

  Karl Marx
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• One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

  

  Orville Wright
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• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
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• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
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• What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

  

  Walt Disney
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• My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

  

  Max Roach
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• Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mind
  • Rise
  • Metaphysics