Intension Quotes

#1. Scientific axiology arises from the unfolding of the following axiom: Value is the degree in which a thing possesses the set of qualities corresponding to the set of attributes in the intension of its concept.

John William Davis

#2. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

Isaac Newton

#3. Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

John Steinbeck

#4. I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

Sergio Leone

#5. I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet

Subcomandante Marcos

#6. There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Confucius

#7. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Milan Kundera

#8. People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.

David Brooks

#9. A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

J.C. Ryle

#10. People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell

#11. You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Stephen Schwartz

#12. The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

Robyn Schneider

#13. Fans are the best. I'd do whatever for them.

Ryan Sheckler