Quotes About Theory

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Engels's view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited by later generations.

In the end, a simple true story beats a sophisticated theory; a testimony trumps an argument!

The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott, an essentially religious demand, and although an individual agent can seek absolutely reliable guidance in faith, this is not an option that is available to the theorist.

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.

Une philosophie transformée devrait casser cette prétention, ne plus faire croire à elle-même et aux autres qu'elle dispose de l'infini. Mais au lieu de cela c'est elle qui, subtilement comprise deviendrait infinie dans la mesure où elle dédaignerait de se fixer dans un corpus de théorèmes dénombrables.

Moins la t théorie cherche à passer pour définitive, englobante, moins aussi elle s'objectivisise (vergegenständlichen) face à celui qui pense. La disparition de la contrainte du système permet au pensant de se fier avec moins de prévention à sa propre conscience et expérience que ne le tolérait la conception pathétique d'une subjectivité qui doit payer son triomphe abstrait du renoncement à son contenu spécifique.

En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine, rien sur lui-même, sur son développement. De manière analogue, il faudrait que la philosophie ne se ramène pas à des catégories mais en un certain sens qu'elle se mette à composer.

L'idéologie guette l'esprit qui, se réjouissant de lui-même comme le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche, devient irrésistiblement presque un absolu de lui-même. La théorie empêche cela. Elle corrige la naïverté de sa confiance en soi sans qu'il doive pourtant sacrifier la spontanéité à laquelle la théorie pour sa part veut accéder.

argued, with the inventive cunning that each of us possesses when a pet theory of ours is refuted by the evidence

Raw, glittering force, however, compounded of the cruel Machiavellianism of nature, if it is to be but Machiavellian, seems to exercise a profound attraction for the conventionally rooted. Your cautious citizen of average means, looking out through the eye of his dull world of seeming fact, is often the first to forgive or condone the grim butcheries of theory by which the strong rise.

we must abandon definitely the laissez-faire theory of political economy, and fearlessly champion a system of increased Governmental control, paying no heed to the cries of the worthy people who denounce this as Socialistic.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Whether overtly or not, all twentieth-century political theory has basically posed the same question: what is the relationship between the State, power and social classes?

just as there can be no general theory of the- economy (no 'economic science') having a theoretical object that remains unchanged through the various modes of production, so can there be no 'general theory' of the state-political (in the sense of a political 'science' or 'sociology') having a similarly constant object.

Grant me Love implies not desire but Commitment Commitment accepts Challenge Challenge embraces Theory And you and I will get Reason: A way to explore past actions and future dreams

It is called education because it is learned. You do not have to have had an experience in order to sympathize or empathize with the subject. That is why books are written: so that we do not have to do the same things. We learn from experience, true; but we also learn from empathy." A Theory of Patience