Charles Bernhard Heyd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

  • All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

  • Food simply isn't important to me.

  • History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

  • It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

  • When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  • If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  • The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

  • Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

  • So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

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