“It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their origin in the fact that the reflective or theoretical class of men elaborated a large stock of ideas which social conditions did not allow them to act upon and test. Consequently men were thrown back into their own thoughts as ends in themselves.” MenWorldMindMayIdeasEndsPhilosophyFactsSocialClassConditionsTestsThrownTheoreticalSocial Conditions Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...” PeopleThinkingSometimesMatterReasonWholeFactsOrderSexPleasureObjectsRelationNotionSexualityReason WhyMutualTheoreticalMatter Of FactObjectionsProcreation Author:Alan Keyes
“I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.” FactsMoralModernPositionJudgmentClaimsCharacteristicsTheoreticalProtagonistsMoral Judgment Book:After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.” MeanImportantIdeasFactsHandsPracticeTheoryMerePracticalsMotivatedSpeculationTheoreticalAccumulationTheory And Practice Author:George E. P. Box