“I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.” ThinkingWorldBelieveRealEndsFactsLife IsUsedI BelieveViewsAbsolutesGreat ThingsFixedPhasesPhases Of Life Author:Philip Johnson
“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.” IfsKnowsFactsFeelingsEyeSpeakTalkingSeaReaderHabitPureHighestWaveRageChecksFixedHis EyesEtcFloodTrue OnesRemorseless Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.” SoulCharacterFactsPassionKnownOpinionHorrorInstinctDefinedFixed Author:Fernando Pessoa
“I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.” ShouldMomentsFactsValuesChoicesLanguageGivenNaturalHandleFixedGapsSchemesUncertainDefiniteFactual Author:Saul Kripke
“The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.” FactsMovingWinningSimpleQualityWindowVicesObviousCodeFixedPlatformsBugsVice VersaPortGamerLinuxCode Quality Author:Ryan C. Gordon
“Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.” LongIdeasReasonFactsChristianityAtheismMankindPositive AtheismFixed Author:Ludwig Feuerbach