Edward Feser Quotes

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument – though obviously I don’t think he is – but if you’re going to show that he is, you first need to understand what kind of argument he is giving, and thus what kind of mistake he’d be making if he’s made one at all.

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• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Challenges

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Way
  • Relationships

• I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Girl

• I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Support
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singing

• If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

  

  Jack Valenti

• Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

  

  David Alan Basche

• I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.

  

  James Adomian
  • Country
  • Control

• My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

  

  Ellen Terry
  • Up

• As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

  

  Lois Lowry

• The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Funny
  • Chance
  • Actors

• Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it's still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Trying
  • Journey
  • Characters

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• [Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Teenager
  • Tradition

• Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument – though obviously I don’t think he is – but if you’re going to show that he is, you first need to understand what kind of argument he is giving, and thus what kind of mistake he’d be making if he’s made one at all.

  

  Edward Feser
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