“Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.” ActivityElementsCapacityObjectivesContemporaryTendenciesConclusionConsiderationUnpredictableInnateExhibitsSuccess Or Failure Author:George Orwell
“In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.” WarCountryWishOpinionReturnBalanceElementsInternationalConclusionWelcomePreparationAnarchyArmamentBalance Of Power Author:Arthur Henderson
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.” ElementsApproachClimateConclusionFrighteningHumiliate Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.” PeopleLooksTodayCoursesDecisionVisionSpecialElementsArgumentClaimsChosenDoctrineConclusionContrastScience And ReligionCompetitorsMonopolyWorldviewScientism Author:Mary Midgley
“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.” MenTryingLastsCommonMistakePiecesSubjectsPeriodsElementsStandardsStartingPhilosopherContemporaryConclusionAnalysisFixedPassiveTestimonyResortsStarting Point Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.” WellsMightSufferingUniverseInformationElementsTasksImportanceConclusionAssetsRiddle Author:Sigmund Freud