Critical Condition Quotes

#1. One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)

Jerry A. Fodor

#2. If the Mentalese story about the content of thought is true, then there couldn't be a private language argument. Good. That explains why there isn't one. (In Critical Condition, p. 68)

Jerry A. Fodor

#3. Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

Benjamin Carson

#4. When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Julia Cameron

#5. It is much better to be addicted to the Word of God than to be in a critical condition because you didn't pray

Sunday Adelaja

#6. I don't suppose you'd want to go destroy some evil, would you? the voice said. I'm not really sure what that means, to be honest. I'll just trust you to decide.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

Nelson Mandela

#8. They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren't an expert in
social matters ... "
"At least I take action. You? You let the world go by
without you. You have no spine. You don't fight back."
"You don't know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty.

Richelle Mead

#10. Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants.

Donald Miller

#11. Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?

Sophie Hannah

#12. The Fred Astaire movies made a huge impression on me.

Anton Du Beke

#13. The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

William Gilbert

#14. You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

Marat Safin

#15. Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right.

Bryant McGill

#16. Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love behind, and the next one always seems out of reach. What can buoy you up in the meantime. What can underlie love, but love.

Michael Davidow

#17. Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.

Criss Jami

#18. The Spirituality and Self-Help industry wants you to be empowered enough to buy their products, but disempowered enough to still think you need them.

Steve Maraboli

#19. It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Virginia Woolf

#20. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Paulo Freire