Quotes About Method

What else can I do to achieve the result?

I believe that the poetic incompetence of some bigoted linguists has been mis­ taken for an inadequacy of the linguistic science itself. All of us here, however, definitely realize that a linguist deaf to the poetic function of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistic problems and unconversant with linguistic methods are equally flagrant anachro­nisms.

Bible expositor J. Dwight Pentecost, one of my former professors at Dallas Theological Seminary, said that "the literal method of interpretation is that method that gives to each word the same exact basic meaning it would have in normal, ordinary, customary usage, whether employed in writing, speaking, or thinking. It is called the grammatical-historical method to emphasize the fact that the meaning is to be determined by both grammatical and historical considerations."1

The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.

A particular method of symbolizing may be unimportant, but it is always important that this is a possible method of symbolizing. And this happens as a rule in philosophy: The single thing proves over and over again to be unimportant, but the possibility of every single thing reveals something about the nature of the world.

There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.

We predicate of the thing what lies in the method of representing it. Impressed by the possibility of a comparison, we think we are perceiving a state of affairs of the highest generality.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

Que isto de método, sendo, como é, uma coisa indispensável, todavia é melhor tê-lo sem gravata nem suspensórios, mas um pouco à fresca e à solta, como quem não se lhe dá da vizinha fronteira, nem do inspetor de quarteirão. É como a eloquência, que há uma genuína e vibrante, de uma arte natural e feiticeira, e outra tesa, engomada e chocha.

Successful people follow successful patterns.

Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were those who understood me least.

What passes for art today is for the most part a demonstration of itself, for it is a fallacy to suppose that method can become the meaning and aim of art. Nonetheless, most modern artists spend their time self-indulgently demonstrating method.

The wish to fix people reflects pessimism about their condition and optimism about the method of repair.

I would argue that no approach to a text is without method—even what you would call literalism and what I call "vacuous literalism." (In

Reality is simply the loss of the ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. This is the direct method, whereas all other methods are done, only retaining the ego. . . . No sadhanas [spiritual practices] are necessary for engaging in this quest.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practises on others: in conversation we naturally diffuse our thoughts, and in writing we contract them; method is the excellence of writing, and unconstraint the grace of conversation. To read, write, and converse in due proportions is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Experience has long shown this method to be so distinct as to obviate confusion, and so comprehensive as to prevent any inconvenient omissions.

Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.

But never being wrong is no proof that the method of testing is sound for all cases