Edward Feser Quotes
Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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The media is controlled.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.
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You have to be there at the right time and you've got to be equipped.
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You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her expletive whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.
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The destruction of the atom the split of it, in modern physics seemed to me to be the same as the destruction of the world.. ..science to me appeared to be dead: its most important basis was only a lunacy, a mistake perpetrated by learned men.. ..who blindly mistook one object for another.
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
