Top 37 Schelling Quotes
#1. But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria
#2. I never consciously choose what I'm going to work on next; I don't have an agenda beyond that attraction. Fortunately, my wonderful agent, Christopher Schelling, knows how I think and points me toward things I might like, which is how I started writing Y.A.
Kathe Koja
#3. What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which is not simply the factual absence of future light.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#4. I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel.
Scott Wood
#5. In any film there's always a historical implication.
Oliver Stone
#6. Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#8. God's love and mercy (like liberal preachers). Only when people see God as absolutely holy and absolutely loving will the cross of Jesus truly electrify and change them.
Timothy Keller
#9. Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
Felix Schelling
#10. The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#11. The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#12. Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
Antonin Scalia
#14. I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.
Thomas Schelling
#15. In silence we are loving and kind; in a crowd we become blind.
Debasish Mridha
#16. One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#17. You don't often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time.
John Feinstein
#18. Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces.
Schelling
#21. I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.
Thomas Schelling
#22. I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#25. Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.
Thomas Schelling
#26. There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
Thomas Schelling
#27. When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.
Thomas Schelling
#31. I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.
Thomas Schelling
#32. True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
Felix Schelling
