Wilfrid Sellars Quotes
To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.
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Racism is a physical experience.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.
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I've always been extremely physical.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
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speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.
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I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.
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We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
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You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic — a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.
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Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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YOU ARE SUCH THAT BESIDES THIS (PHYSICAL) BODY YOU HAVE ANOTHER (ASTRAL) BODY. DO NOT THEREFORE BE AFRAID OF GETTING OUT OF THE MORTAL FRAME.
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.
