Top 24 Quotes About Instrumentalism
#1. Copenhagen interpretation Niels Bohr's combination of instrumentalism, anthropocentrism and studied ambiguity, used to avoid understanding quantum theory as being about reality.
David Deutsch
#2. Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.
Bertrand Russell
#3. Arson, kidnapping, I think I'm up to murder. Maybe all this will get me just a glimmer of attention, not the good, glorious kind, but still the national media kind.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. "A minority of one" ... the definition of insanity.
George Orwell
#5. The cold mornings open their eyes to glare at you one after another, like hostile strangers.
Anna Kavan
#6. I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#7. Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you ... I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs.
William Shakespeare
#8. He used the word savages with affection, as if he liked them a little for it. In his nature was a respect for wildness. He saw it as a personal challenge, something that could be put right with an idea or a machine. He felt he had the answer to most problems, if anyone cared to listen.
Paul Theroux
#9. When you serve people, God will send people to bless you
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#10. I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B.B. King
#11. Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
Joseph O'Neill
#12. Tsze-kung asked, "What do you think of me?" The Master said, "You are a pot." "What sort of pot?" "A precious ritual vase.
Confucius
#14. [God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.
Terry Eagleton
#15. Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.
Stephen Holmes
#16. God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He'll use the people around us for that
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#18. I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas
#19. And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#20. Souris says you wanted to see me, so here I am. Talk quick before I decide to beat the shit out of you and throw your bloody carcass back across the International Date Line.
Elle Lothlorien
#21. We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom
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#22. The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#23. You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
Harvey Fierstein
#24. The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you
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