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. Getting lost is not a waste of time,

Jack Johnson

#4. 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

#5. If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. We believe in you, Phoebe," Stella says. "You just have to believe in yourself."
I roll my eyes behind the blindfold. As if that's not a cheesy, movie-of-the-week line.

Tera Lynn Childs

#7. When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.

Nathaniel Branden

#8. 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

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

Donald Miller

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. 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

#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. Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

Christian Lous Lange

#15. Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

John Marin

#16. The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Woody Allen

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

William Lane Craig

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

David Foster Wallace

#20. You might have to teach me a little about the human world, but I'm willing to learn if it means being close to you. - Prince Ash

Julie Kagawa

#21. Despair makes priests and friars.

Martin Luther

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The Underground Peasant Movement adopted the slogan of "As little, as late, and as bad as possible," and set about sabotaging deliveries

Diane Ackerman

#26. The emphasis should be on fairness and integrity.

Donald J. Trump

#27. Mama says change is God's way of showing us a tender miracle, kinda like the chocolate inside a Tootsie Pop.

Suzanne Crowley

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

William Pfaff

#29. I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

Emo Philips

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

Donald Miller

#31. When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device

Mike Parry