Elliott Sober Quotes

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

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• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Model

• The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Why
  • May
  • Stage

• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  

  Van Jones
  • Together
  • Future
  • Winning

• I didn't expect myself to be perfect my first season because no one ever pulled me aside and said "This is how you walk."

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Perfect
  • Said
  • Firsts

• Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Character
  • Ignorant
  • Conceited

• I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

  

  William John Wills
  • States
  • Melbourne

• Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

  

  Plutarch
  • Breath
  • Pottage
  • Hesiod

• Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Future
  • Soldiers

• An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Man
  • Duty
  • Led

• Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Rule
  • Trusting

• We need a plan. What's the plan? We don't have a plan. We need one. We need a master plan to fix traffic, water and crime problems. We need planning, planning, planning. I'm gonna make a plan, etc.

  

  David Steele Fine Young Cannibals
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Plan

• When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Mistake
  • Satisfied
  • Argue

• God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • God
  • Nature
  • Justice

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Mountain
  • Shadow
  • Everest

• Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Circumstance
  • Theories
  • Probabilities