Max Black famous quotes

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.
-- Max Black

#Hate #Mean #Scales

We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.
-- Max Black

#Children #Cutting #Fire

... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.
-- Max Black

#Believe #Reality #Perspective

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
-- Max Black

#Understanding #Unraveling #Metaphor

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
-- Max Black

#May #Metaphor #Seems

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.
-- Max Black

#Philosophy #Doubt #Would Be

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics
-- Max Black

#Accepted #Mathematics #Results

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.