Ernst von Glasersfeld Quotes
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
Ernst von Glasersfeld
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
Sam Shepard
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
Jenny Lewis
Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.
Emilio Azcarraga Jean
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
Lynn Davies
It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
Jason Bateman
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Her desire set her apart from the pack. Now, she has an aura that floats around, and that's intimidating.
Pam Shriver
I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
Adam Hughes
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind.
Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness,
where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience,
all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.
Longchenpa
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
Ernst von Glasersfeld
