“To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative.” IfsWayTwoCharacterFateDangerPossibilityTheoryNotionRateDenyNobleAlternativesAnalysisDependentDelusionAdoptedTheoreticalTwo WaysSuccessorsEsotericPlatonicSubservientAvertHeidegger Author:Leo Strauss
“Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.” WorldMayMatterCharacterThreeBeliefChallengesEffortAliveCrazyMovementTheoryHeroAngerAngrySaintActivismProportionRebellionRebelConspiracyComplacentHystericalDissidentsSterling Author:Carol Tavris
“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.” MatterCharacterDifferencesSeriousTheoryTasteConsequenceImportanceRegardFundamentalsMereConfusionEthicalPreferenceSubjectiveTemperament Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.” KnowsWorldCharacterBigsTheoryScientistSeriesPrimeBangsMain CharactersPrime Time Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how they died and how to better serve the community. At the same time these people have lives outside and families and my character in particular, he has a fiance and things are going well for him, so you've got to show that nice warm compassionate side at the same time you've got to show the steely, icy cool of a doctor. Not only that, but a doctor who gets a bit of a God complex and starts killing people for sport.” PeopleWorldWellsCharacterShowsBodyBitsSportsSidesCommunityNiceThis WorldParticularTheoryDoctorsDiedComplexesKillingWarmCompassionateDoctor WhoIcyFianceGod Complex Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.” ThinkingWantCharacterRealityFormTheoryScalesTheologyDescriptionStringsSatisfyingAmbitiousAstonishingCosmologyVery BeautifulString Theory Author:Marilynne Robinson
“If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.” IfsNeedsCharacterTheoryDirectGuidesChecksConceptionApplication Book:Eliot's Essays: Top Essays Source: Eliot's Essays: Top Essays
“I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character at a time. It's all conjecture why somebody didn't watch, but one of the theories was that there was just so much information, even in the trailers and promos, of all these different people.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCharacterShowsWatchesAudienceInformationTheoryDifferent PeoplesTrailersConjecture Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.” ThinkingKnowsMeanWholeCharacterSeemsChristianAmericaSpiritualSpiritualityTermInterestingIssuesTeachingMiddleTheoryContemporaryEducatedCellsStemFundamentalismEasternStem Cell Author:Rachel Weisz
“My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either ‘smurfing’ a movie, which is when there’s one female character, or ‘minioning’ a movie, which is when there’s no female characters.” WholeCharacterHeardTheoryFemaleRaisedLeavingCreatorFemale CharactersRatios Author:Geena Davis
“'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters; to trust characters and hate other characters, but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling in my book.” PeopleBookDifferentCharacterHateBlackTheoryExcitingDebateStorytellingAllegianceOrphanDifferent Characters Author:Tatiana Maslany
“There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.” CharacterRelationshipTheorySexyNudity Author:Tim Robbins