Sellars Quotes

#1. I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

James Sellars

#2. No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Walter Moers

#3. Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

William Feather

#4. To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.

Wilfrid Sellars

#5. If the rest of my life were anything like the last couple of days, then that new skill might be the only thing keeping me out of traction. Back

Rachel Rawlings

#6. Huh, when did being a grown up ever mean owt?

Brian Sellars

#7. The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems
thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.

Wilfrid Sellars

#8. I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.

Matt Reeves

#9. Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mitchell

#10. [T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.

Wilfrid Sellars

#11. It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Thomas Sowell

#12. Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Martin Jacques

#14. No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

Roy Wood Sellars

#15. Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

Richard Dawkins

#16. A little surge of bitterness goes through me like someone's shot it right into my veins with a syringe. But I know how to get over the feeling: remember that it doesn't do any good.

Ally Condie

#17. Alex rolled his eyes. "It's just a house party, Ror. I didn't promise you ... whatever the opposite of a sausage fest is."
Rory grinned unashamedly. "An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet?

Erin Lawless

#18. We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.

James Franco

#19. I'm going to consult some witches' books. Not that I have many here to consult. But I'm not going to Bryn's house. I've made it twelve whole days without sleeping with him, and no scary skeleton in a tree is going to send me to Seduction Central now that Bryn's big case is finally over.

Kimberly Frost

#20. My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

Anita Roddick

#21. Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

Lyn Nofziger

#22. I'm a witch, not a Ouija board."
--Rowan Gant (Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation)

M.R. Sellars