Non Teleological Quotes

#1. One of the many factors that separate children from adults is the apparent lack in children of teleological intent; that, beyond the immediate ambition of scoring a goal or finishing a drawing, they're not trying to get anywhere or achieve anything.

Robert Rowland Smith

#2. The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.

Ted Chiang

#3. Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

Ted Chiang

#4. I can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#5. Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

Paul Brown

#6. It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation).

Steven Pinker

#7. On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.

Bob Uecker

#8. All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

Donald Miller

#9. There are many difficulties inherent in a teleological view of creation, said Parker placidly.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

George Henry Lewes

#11. I've made my nothing, and now I've got to live in it.

Paul Auster

#12. The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

John Carroll

#13. But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Christian Lous Lange

#14. I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

Woody Allen

#15. my favorite is the cosmological argument. But cosmological and teleological arguments don't touch people where they live. The

William Lane Craig

#16. Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

David Foster Wallace

#17. Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

Frederick Lenz

#18. I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

Jonas Salk

#19. So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. This ancient affirmation of Scripture and the Christian tradition provides a teleological hope and direction that gives meaning to life now and moves us toward the future with faith and confidence in God's redemptive purpose and power.

Cynthia Peters Anderson

#21. Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

William Pfaff

#22. Satan's primary goal is to prevent us from having an intimate
relationship with the Lord. He

Charles F. Stanley

#23. Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

Donald Miller

#24. Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Vladimir Voinovich

#25. While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

Gabourey Sidibe

#26. I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now ... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

Steve Harvey