Alexandre Koyre Quotes
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
Quotes to Explore
-
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
-
I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
-
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
-
If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
-
Education is so important.
-
I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
-
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
-
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
-
I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
-
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
-
I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
-
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
-
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
-
'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
-
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
-
I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
-
I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
-
The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
-
If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
-
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
-
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
-
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
-
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
-
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
