“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.” StatesFeelingsIndividualGoalPsychologyMovementTheoryHigherStrongerStrivePsychologicalSignificanceYearningCompensationInferiorityPersonal Power Author:Alfred Adler
“By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.” PhilosophySocialGoalTheoryLogicLegendsConcreteFormalDefiniteBankruptcyAbstaining Book:Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords
“International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.” FactsSpiritGoalViewsPrinciplesTheoryUltimateDemocraticAffairInternationalFearlessConsistencyMaximumPublicityMethodologyWeighingInternational Affairs Book:Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom Source: Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom
“We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.” WorldWayMindHumansIdeasDifferentGoalVoiceAttentionPracticeStruggleSeeingMovementMaterialsTheoryWesternConfusionIdeologyDifferent WaysGoodsSanityStanding OutRevealingHuman HistoryTrue NatureSupermarketsWestern WorldSeeing The WorldRediscovery Author:David Fontana
“I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.” FirstsLooksGoalJourneyTheorySentencesUnifiedOne Sentence Author:Brian Greene
“What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.” TwoHappensPurposeUniverseProcessGoalCreationTheoryIntelligentScaryExplanationLiving ThingsCreation Science Author:Duane Gish
“The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.” WorldHumansSpiritGoalNumbersTheoryHonourHuman Spirit Author:Serge Lang
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.” PeopleIfsWayMovingArtistCultureGoalAcceptingSuccessfulPaintingTheoryTruth IsAspectScientistUniversalMusicalSomedayCompositionReplacedLiteralUniversal TruthCulture ChangeSociety And CultureMusical Composition Author:Daniel Levitin
“President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.” PeopleMenWorldRealJobsAsksLostGoalPresidentAchieveTheoryRefuseIdeologyReal WorldPresident ObamaIncapableReal Jobs Author:Cal Thomas
“The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.” PeopleWorldWayHelpingTodaySocialGoalJusticePracticeDestinyEconomicAchieveTheoryCreatingConceptsAdvantageSocial JusticeWesternMessIslamicSpiteAdoptionEfficiencyManhoodOur DestinyEconomic SystemsWestern WorldEconomic TheoryTheory And PracticeMechanizationHappy And Contented Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.” ThinkingDoeGoalFailingAchieveTheoryEvidenceArgumentClaimsStatementsObservationFormerLatterMetaphysicalEpistemologyThesisScientific Theory Author:Elliott Sober
“Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply of infrastructure and of education. We're not supplying that infrastructure at an appropriate rate today. I don't doubt it isn't just money; it's organization and goals and so forth.” NeedsKindTodayGoalDoubtEconomicTheoryAspectOrganizationRateClassicAppropriateGoodsInfrastructureInterventionEconomic Theory Author:Kenneth Arrow