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“Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.”

Painting Theory Elements Cents Ninety Impressionists

Author:Claude Monet

“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”

Ideas Care Religious Position Theory Elements Essence Constitution Mere Driven Doctrine Distinction Latter Subordinates

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.”

Made Existence Theory Offers Elements Mere Mystical Borrowed Expenditures Keynes

Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

“Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.”

World Needs Existence Principles Theory Circumstances Behavior Elements Historical West Disappear Expected Arise Fixed Phenomenon Metaphysical Orientation Meaningfulness

Author:Raymond Geuss

“Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.”

Source: Selected Writings

“Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.”

Universe Force Black Space Perfect Objects Theory Elements Concepts Definitions Holes Variety Construction Contrast Time And Space Black Hole Approximation

Author:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

“I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.”

Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”

Believe Happiness Joy Perfect Possibility Theory Elements Laughter Strive Indestructible Perfect Happiness

Book:Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”

Writing Certain Found Theory Elements Faults Peculiar Bohemian Beatnik Bohemia

Author:Jack Kerouac

“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”

Facts Desire Theory Elements Argument Property Communist

Book:Social Statics: Great Essays

Source: Social Statics: Great Essays

“Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.”

Should Social Party Sacrifice Economic Theory Elements Seasons Embrace Immigration Primaries Contribution Agendas Rhetoric Doomed Romney Insensitive

Author:Eliot Spitzer