Edward Feser Quotes
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
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A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.
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Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
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There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
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How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
