“The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.” ArtPrinciplesArt IsMethodContraryCopiesAestheticsDealerMethodology Book:Rodin on Art and Artists Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.” ThinkingMenWantFirstsDesireMethodIllContraryTyrannyOppressionSufficientFrustrationAttributesModerationOppressorsRigor Book:The Portable Edmund Burke Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!” MenArtWarMoralImagineDevelopmentIntellectualRaisesMethodExtraordinaryKillingContraryBlindnessSlaughterIntellectual Development Author:African Spir
“"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.” MenHas BeensChristianLawSpiritNationsMoralTeachClearWiseKingsHeroEssenceMethodAncientMythContraryLatterAdmirationTransformedLegendary Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".” WorldWayMayMeanDifferentSeemsOrderStrongPowerfulEffectsProduceWeakShameMethodInstrumentsContraryLikesRosary Author:Columba Marmion
“Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.” ThinkingMethodContraryQuotationsProceduresInvincibleRecyclingAppropriation Author:Susan Sontag
“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.” PeopleIfsTryingInterestActingLibertyWillingBalanceModelsTraditionMethodWesternContraryAlternativesExtrasWestern Society Author:Edward Snowden
“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.” MayScienceSimpleKnownOpinionKnowledgeSpecialElementsDiscoveryDirectMethodComplicatedContraryInventionAnalysisProceduresGeometryDepartureCombiningIndirectSynthesisSimple TruthsPopular Opinion Author:Andre-Marie Ampere
“RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.” GodReligionBeliefEmotionalIntellectualEvidenceMethodContraryDogmaDominating Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22 Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22
“Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.” BelieveForceEffortEnemyExampleMathematicsMethodErrorsSimplicityMathProofContraryRigorRigourMathematical Proof Author:David Hilbert
“Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.” IfsShouldSpiritStudyImpossibleMethodContraryOccasionsMathematicalAnalysisChemistryChemicalsIrrationalRapidsProminentAberrationDegenerationMathematical Analysis Author:Auguste Comte
“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” WorldMatterScienceCausesAcceptingDoorsFeetAcceptanceProduceDivineMaterialsEvolutionCreatingConceptsCommitmentAbsolutesMethodInstitutionsContraryExplanationBiologyMaterialismInvestigationCompellingIntuitivePhenomenalNaturalismAdherenceAnti ReligionCreation ScienceCreation And Evolution Author:Richard Lewontin