Brian Boyd Quotes

There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to fear the monstrous, to be very wary of large, unknown, life-threatening forces. In art, we can play with these things in ways that allow us to feel the intensity of the horror, but in "safe mode," if you like, detached from real consequences.

Brian Boyd

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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • May
  • Unique

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Different
  • House
  • Kind

• I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Taken
  • Just
  • Argument

• If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Drama

• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Argument

• History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • History
  • Moral
  • Argument

• A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Argument
  • Salesman
  • Defensive

• A silly row which got out of hand.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Silly

• The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Political
  • Single

• I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Play
  • Conversation

• Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

  

  Laetitia Pilkington
  • Should
  • Monstrous
  • Accusers

• The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Help

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Parents

• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Perfect
  • Paradise
  • Buddhism

• There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to fear the monstrous, to be very wary of large, unknown, life-threatening forces. In art, we can play with these things in ways that allow us to feel the intensity of the horror, but in "safe mode," if you like, detached from real consequences.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Argument
  • Monstrous
  • Danish guy