Top 86 Chalmers Quotes
#1. Jack Nightingale: "So I'm a hero?"
Supt. Chalmers: "No, Nightingale, you're an arsehole. But I can't arrest you for that.
Stephen Leather
#2. He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious.
Erik Larson
#3. Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to say, Chalmers and myself were both virgins, in every possible meaning of the word.
Christopher Isherwood
#4. Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.
PewDiePie
#5. The sound of the blues, rhythm and blues, country music, is what we lived for, black and white alike. It gave you strength to sit on one of those throbbing Allis-Chalmers tractors all day if you knew you were gonna hear something on the radio or maybe see a show that evening.
Levon Helm
#6. Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean.
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN
Chaz Thompson
#7. Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter.
Gloria Furman
#8. A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
David Chalmers
#9. You're the only one I trust, because you don't trust anyone. A fine and practical trait in a young man!
Dean Chalmers
#10. The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and vulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.
Thomas Chalmers
#11. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.
William Chalmers Burns
#12. For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.
Mario Chalmers
#13. Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
David Chalmers
#14. Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
David Chalmers
#15. The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
Chalmers Johnson
#16. It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
David Chalmers
#17. I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.
David Chalmers
#18. Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.
Thomas Chalmers
#19. Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
Thomas Chalmers
#20. We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.
Alan Chalmers
#21. My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
David Chalmers
#22. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.
Thomas Chalmers
#23. How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?
David Chalmers
#24. Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
Thomas Chalmers
#25. With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.
Thomas Chalmers
#26. The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Thomas Chalmers
#27. Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
David J. Chalmers
#28. It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!
Alan F. Chalmers
#29. Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.
Mario Chalmers
#30. You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.
Mario Chalmers
#31. Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
David Chalmers
#32. The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.
Chalmers Johnson
#33. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.
Chalmers Johnson
#34. Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
David Chalmers
#35. I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.
Thomas Chalmers
#36. Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.
David Chalmers
#37. O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.
Thomas Chalmers
#38. Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
Thomas Chalmers
#39. I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
David Chalmers
#40. Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy - not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness - but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.
Thomas Chalmers
#41. Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
David Chalmers
#42. I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.
Thomas Chalmers
#43. Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
David Chalmers
#44. Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.
Thomas Chalmers
#45. In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.
Irena Chalmers
#46. By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.
Thomas Chalmers
#48. A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.
Thomas Chalmers
#50. I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.
David Chalmers
#51. O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!
Thomas Chalmers
#52. The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
Thomas Chalmers
#53. Out of the dreariness
Into its cheeriness
Come we in weariness,
Home.
Stephen Chalmers
#54. People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
David Chalmers
#56. I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
David Chalmers
#57. Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.
Rohan Chalmers
#58. Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
Thomas Chalmers
#59. Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.
Chalmers Johnson
#60. What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
David Chalmers
#61. In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.
Irena Chalmers
#62. The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose those categories are similarly defective.
Alan F. Chalmers
#63. Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
David Chalmers
#66. It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.
Thomas Chalmers
#67. The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
Thomas Chalmers
#68. Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
David Chalmers
#69. When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
Chalmers Johnson
#70. Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.
Chalmers Johnson
#71. There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
Thomas Chalmers
#72. Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.
David Chalmers
#73. There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
Irena Chalmers
#74. The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Thomas Chalmers
#75. Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
David Chalmers
#76. Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
Thomas Chalmers
#77. The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
George Washington Burnap
#78. The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ
Thomas Chalmers
#79. If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.
Thomas Chalmers
#80. Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.
Thomas Chalmers
#81. Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
David Chalmers
#82. A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.
Chalmers Johnson
#83. Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.
Irena Chalmers
#84. Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.
Thomas Chalmers
#85. There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
David Chalmers
#86. When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.
Mario Chalmers
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