Allen W. Wood Quotes
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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I'm an entrepreneur.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
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The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.
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The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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What can I say about this move? Nothing so I won't.
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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
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I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
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We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.
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There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
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My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
