Nicholas Rescher Quotes

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

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• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  

  Jack Germond
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Never
  • See
  • Generation

• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Save
  • Consent

• When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Quarterbacks are always ready.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Always
  • Ready

• The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Secret

• Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consciousness
  • Punishment
  • Resistance

• When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Government
  • Prying

• It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Gold

• After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

  

  Ian Gillan
  • Different
  • Important
  • Kind

• I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Want

• For the moment, the big thing is rebuilding and it's going to be hugely expensive and acrimonious.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Expensive
  • Rebuilding
  • Acrimonious

• Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Giving
  • Journey
  • Inspiration

• Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Parents

• Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

  

  Charles Du Bos
  • Need
  • Brothers
  • Argue

• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Special
  • Deserve
  • Suits

• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Students

• If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Persons
  • Commit
  • Iron

• One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

  

  Nicholas Rescher
  • Deserve
  • Realities
  • Fates