Vattimo Quotes

#1. The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement.

Stephen Batchelor

#2. The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.

Andrew Rosenthal

#3. We were the first generation without a draft," he says matter-of-factly. "We didn't need to worry about life and death, so we channeled all that time and energy into obsessing over this TV show or that comic book." This

Glen Weldon

#4. Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

Gianni Vattimo

#5. It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist

Gianni Vattimo

#6. A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

Stefan Molyneux

#7. I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

Rita Ora

#8. The fact I've played well means that on a personal level I have enjoyed the season.

Steven Gerrard

#9. the dissolution of reality in interpretation is also an (act of) interpretation, which puts the historicity of the interpreter into play, and is not a discovery or a shedding of light onto a past error that would be uncovered on the basis of an objective awareness of the facts.

Gianni Vattimo

#10. I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist.

Gianni Vattimo

#11. No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

Peter Drucker

#12. Jericho Barrons was my poison now.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. I know you think you want to push me away. I know you think you want to be alone. I know you think you're in this alone. But you're wrong.

Jessica Wood

#14. You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

Jo Nesbo

#15. The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

E. Stanley Jones

#16. I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much ... .if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.

Noam Chomsky

#17. No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Lord Mountbatten

#18. Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam