Albert Borgmann Quotes

#1. We should neither try to demolish technology nor run away from it. We can restrain it and must redeem it. - ALBERT BORGMANN

Anonymous

#2. Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Adam Davidson

#3. I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

David Hume

#4. Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

David Hume

#5. Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion ... religion is institutionalized spirituality. - Mother Jones November/December 1997.

Huston Smith

#6. Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

Mark Pellegrino

#7. My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.

Mitch Hedberg

#8. Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Wayne W. Dyer

#9. Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

Albert Borgmann

#10. Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

Gilbert Highet

#11. For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

Chris Klein

#12. All jobs must be respected, because they are being done unto God.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.

David Byrne

#14. We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

Sam Harris

#15. That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Bing Crosby