S Quotes
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“Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.”
“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.”
Source: The Mechanistic Conception of Life
“Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.”
“Since peaches are already so sweet, sprinkle only very lightly with white sugar. For the perfect complement, use freshly grated ginger. If it's not freshly grated, don't bother.”
Source: The Ingredients of Us
“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment of goods and services when proportionally more income is used to pay monopolized rent for land. Essentially, whenever property owners collect rent from rising land values, fewer financial resources are left over for wages and capital investments, and this dynamic can effectively put society on the fast track toward social decline and wealth inequality.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.”
“Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.”
“Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d be____________________.”
“Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.”
Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be
“Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.”
“Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.”
Source: Philosophy of right
“Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.”
“Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.”
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“Since physical reality is a reflection, who or what is doing the reflection? Because if there is nothing out there, what is reflecting back these experiences to us? What is reflecting back is your higher mind.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.”
“Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.”
“Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.”
“Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.”
“Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.”
“Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.”
“Since prejudices are shallow or false judgments, infiltrating our mind in the absence of dynamic reflection, we have got to coach ourselves to prevent intense emotional discomfort or irreparable harm. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
“Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.”
“Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.”
“Since President Johnson launched the War on Poverty, the government has spent more than $22 trillion (adjusted for inflation). That’s more than three times what the United States has spent on all the actual wars it has fought in its history - combined.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.”
“Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.”
“Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.”
Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche
“Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].”
“Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.”
“Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.”
“Since pursuing my dreams, I've starved, I've lived and I've starved.”
Source: Kipnuk's Joke Book for Kiddies
“Since quantum states involve mutual exclusivity in the form of changing the coordinates of a quantum event so that it collapses into the waveform that would make this possible, one can imagine that the entire planet is constantly categorizing its thoughts in the manner, by which the coordinates of quantum events are exchanged with each other.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual pleasure. And let alone lesbian or homosexual sexuality.”
“Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.”
“Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.”
“Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.”
Source: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works
“Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.”
“Since religion must be based not on the logic of theoretical reason but on the practical reason of the moral sense, it follows that any Bible or revelation must be judged by its value for morality, and cannot itself be the judge of a moral code.
Churches and dogmas have value only in so far as they assist the moral development of the race.
When mere creeds or ceremonies usurp priority over moral excellence as a test of religion, religion has disappeared.
The real church is a community of people, however scattered and divided, who are united by devotion to the common moral law. It was to establish such a community that Christ lived and died.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.”
Source: Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography
“Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.”
“Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.”
“Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.”
“Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have.”
“Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.”
“Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.”
“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.”