John Seely Hart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.

  • Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

  • I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

  • problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...

  • An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

  • When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

  • I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

  • Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

  • The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

  • As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.