Edward Feser Quotes

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Edward Feser

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• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Game
  • Color

• The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Me
  • Cool

• It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Me
  • Kiss
  • Tell

• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Easy
  • Very
  • Through

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Trust

• I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Art

• Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Important
  • Society
  • Free

• I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Great

• There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

  

  Daria Werbowy
  • Good
  • Art
  • Black

• If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.

  

  Jeff Smisek
  • Good
  • Work
  • Proud

• To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Home
  • Listening

• I've always thought of myself as shy.

  

  Nicholson Baker

• I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Theatre

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Long
  • Children
  • Stills

• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  

  William Blackstone
  • People
  • Hell
  • Crime

• This team's resilient, ... We don't quit. Guys in here have battled back from injuries, the pitching staff's a little bit banged up. Now, we're starting to come into our own.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • War

• I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Faith
  • Greatness
  • Goodness

• For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Discovered