Etienne Gilson Quotes
Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
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Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
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Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
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The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation.
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.
