Edward Feser Quotes

If the Canadian parliament, say, should declare that in light of evolving social mores, triangles should be regarded as sometimes having four sides, and decree also that anyone who expresses disagreement with this judgment shall be deemed guilty of discriminatory hate speech against four-sided triangles, none of this would change the geometrical facts in the least, but merely cast doubt on the sanity of Canadian parliamentarians.

Edward Feser

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• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• CALLINGWind rocksthe porch chairsomebody home.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Home

• I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.

  

  Donovan
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Hand

• You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Texas

• It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Children
  • Silence
  • Cold

• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• Honestly, I have been able to accept my father's new relationship because you get to that point with your parents that you realise it's their life, not yours.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Life
  • Father
  • Parents

• A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

  

  Mark Strand
  • Life
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.

  

  Jay Samit

• I like smart rappers who aren't necessarily trying to be deeper than you, like Danny Brown.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Trying
  • Smart

• Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Today

• When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Up
  • She
  • American

• True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hope
  • Democracy
  • Spirit

• Tough situations form experiences from which we grow and learn. So I think it’s really better to have gone through tough times than not to have any at all.

  

  Sho Sakurai Arashi
  • Grow
  • Tough
  • Situations

• If the Canadian parliament, say, should declare that in light of evolving social mores, triangles should be regarded as sometimes having four sides, and decree also that anyone who expresses disagreement with this judgment shall be deemed guilty of discriminatory hate speech against four-sided triangles, none of this would change the geometrical facts in the least, but merely cast doubt on the sanity of Canadian parliamentarians.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Guilty
  • Judgment
  • Parliament