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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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Zoe Cassavetes
I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
Fernando Alonso
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
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
W. H. Auden
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
For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.
Kristen Stewart
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves- how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice.
Katie Cleary
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
