Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker) Quotes

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Need
  • Rules
  • Immigration

• I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • TV

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Today
  • Difference

• Fingir é conhecer-se.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.

  

  Vernon Howard

• There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Reality

• If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

  

  Jon Brion
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Amazing

• There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sleep
  • Dead
  • Remains

• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pleasure
  • Choice
  • Noble

• The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nature

• Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Natural
  • Drinking
  • Eating

• Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

  

  Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Natural