“We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.” DoeDoneActionForgetSituationMoralCasesTheoryMoralityIntellectualRegardObservationCommentSpheresConcreteSpeculationObliged Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.” PeopleWorldHumansLastsForgetVisionBuildingTheoryPeriodsMethodBlindSpotsLandscapeShockVocabularyRelativityDisturbanceComputingStunnedUpheavalBlind SpotsTics Book:The Art of Being Ruled Source: The Art of Being Ruled
“We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.” KnowsBelieveForgetAtheismTheoryHarderAbsolutesPositive AtheismEducatedAxioms Book:The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
“I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that and you start enjoying what you're doing. Once you enjoy the process, you know that people are going to do the same thing. If you don't enjoy it and just do it like a job, then it's going to be feel that way. That's my theory of doing a movie.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsHappensJobsStuffProcessEnjoyForgetTheoryLondonJust Do It Author:A. R. Rahman