G. E. M. Anscombe Quotes

#1. Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

G. E. M. Anscombe

#2. Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

G. E. M. Anscombe

#3. An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

G. E. M. Anscombe

#4. If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal.

Dave Barry

#5. There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't even have the beginnings of a theory whose conclusion would be such a system is conscious.

Stuart J. Russell

#6. They think too little who talk too much.

John Dryden

#7. The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get ...

G. E. M. Anscombe

#8. Sometimes in life we fear a dark season that may never arrive, the underpinnings of those grave days set on some unknowable horizon. I had feared a lot of things that in the end proved futile - my

Addison Moore

#9. Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar as they themselves march to the tune of seduction.

Jean Baudrillard

#10. I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.

Ashleigh Banfield

#11. The mind can take in many things, but it cannot take in God.

Rita Leganski

#12. Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.

Scott Speedman

#13. It takes a long time for words to become thought ...

May Sarton

#14. No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Cyril Connolly

#15. Happy Tuesday! Stay in the LIGHT. Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit & be with positive people who make your life dance !

Tracey Edmonds