Ernest Gellner Quotes
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.Ernest Gellner
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
Nancy Pelosi -
I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
Malaika Arora Khan -
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch -
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris -
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
Gary Johnson -
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
Dan Shechtman -
The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber -
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri -
If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
Viktor Orban -
Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger -
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei -
When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'
Lana Turner
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
Terence McKenna -
Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
R. Kelly -
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
Adam Cohen -
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
William James -
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Ernest Gellner