Donald Davidson Quotes

#1. The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Stephen Ambrose

#3. Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

Donald Davidson

#4. You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

Donald Davidson

#6. The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

Donald Davidson

#7. Love me or leave me, but if you love me, please don't leave me.

Lisa N. Paul

#8. Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

Donald Davidson

#9. Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

Donald Davidson

#10. The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.

Albert Einstein

#11. Prayer is our greatest and most salutary weapon in the eternal battle," put in the man called Schecter, joining them. He took a sip of coffee and continued, "No less than gravity, prayer is one of the elemental forces that moves the world. We underestimate it at our peril.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#12. I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb

#13. People always like things that seem exotic.

Jane Birkin

#14. Music is the universe where everything is allowed

Fallgrapp

#15. Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

Donald Davidson

#16. Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.

Donald Davidson