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Quotes About Theoretic

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
~ George Santayana
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
~ Auguste Comte
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
~ John Ruskin
As long as theoretic knowledge remains the privilege of a handful of "academicians" in the Party, the latter will face the danger of going astray.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
No coarser insult, no baser aspersion, can be thrown against the workers than the remark: "Theoretic controversies are only for academicians.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
~ Auguste Comte
The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent: and with such a nature, struggling in the bonds of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither, the outcome was sure to strike others as at once exaggeration and inconsistency.
~ George Eliot
clerihew: Fuchs Looks Like an ascetic Theoretic
~ Ben Macintyre
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without feeling disturbed in my soul, without incurring guilt; that is no matter of theory, but a matter of conscience[.]
~ Ludwig Feuerbach