T Quotes
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“The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are ever the same, but the developments are always new - in which, therefore, no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth, what hew manifestations of goodness, what new phases of the moral heaven may appear.”
“The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another, a set of assumptions about the domain to be learned. Rather than trying to learn everything from scratch, it is much more effective to rely on prior assumptions that clearly delineate the basic laws of the domain that must be explored, and integrate these laws into the very architecture of the system. The more innate assumptions there are, the faster learning is (provided, of course, that these assumptions are correct!). This is universally true. It would be wrong, for example, to think that the AlphaGo Zero software, which trained itself in Go by playing against itself, started from nothing: its initial representation included, among other things, knowledge of the topography and symmetries of the game, which divided the search space by a factor of eight.
Our brain too is molded with assumptions of all kinds. Shortly, we will see that, at birth, babies' brains are already organized and knowledgeable. They know, implicitly, that the world is made of things that move only when pushed, without ever interpenetrating each other (solid objects)—and also that it contains much stranger entities that speak and move by themselves (people). No need to learn these laws: since they are true everywhere humans live, our genome hardwires them into the brain, thus constraining and speeding up learning. Babies do not have to learn everything about the world: their brains are full of innate constraints, and only the specific parameters that vary unpredictably (such as face shape, eye color, tone of voice, and individual tastes of the people around them) remain to be acquired.”
Source: How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
“The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does the truth have a moral?" "Um..." "How about this: stealing is not always bad?" "I don't think my mom would like that moral." 'Rats are delicious,' suggested George. 'What does that have to do with the story?', Martha demanded. 'Nothing', George said. 'But I'm hungry.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.”
Source: Cibola Burn
“The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.”
Source: The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man
“The moral high road is always about love, compassion, kindness and generosity.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“The moral I draw is the artist should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in the release of the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.”
“The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.”
“The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children”
“The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.”
“The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.”
“The moral is clear: the choice is never between objectivity and interpretation but between an interpretation that is unacknowledged as such and an interpretation that is at least aware of itself.”
Source: Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
“The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.”
“The moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person.”
“The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.”
“The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.”
Source: Grimm tales made gay
“The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going to be wrong. There is never any money to be made in the obvious conclusions.”
“The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.”
“The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if
some kind of sin you must be pursuing,
Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The moral is this: do not underestimate the power of playing the social game. It’s not about tricking or manipulating people; it’s about creating relationships to get things done. Relationships always outlast projects. When you’ve got richer relationships with your coworkers, they’ll be more willing to go the extra mile when you need them.”
Source: Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
“The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.”
“The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.”
“The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all.”
Source: Classics Revisited
“The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.”
“The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.”
Source: The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations
“The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.”
“The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.”
“The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.”
Source: A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes
“The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.”
Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford
“The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.”
“The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.”
“The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.”
Source: D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments
“The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.”
“The moral man is mentally awake.”
“The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man. He who is not moral is immoral! and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”
“The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.”
Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“The moral of fairy tales isn’t to convince us that witches, dragons, and evil creatures exist. The moral of fairy tales is to teach us that monsters, in any form, can be defeated. No matter how great your villains may seem, or how insignificant you believe yourself to be, you can find the strength within yourself to prevail.”
Source: Icebound: Fabled, Book 1
“The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.”
“The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.”
Source: Roughing It
“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories