"The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity"."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.”

Source : "Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg interview: This Is The End". Interview with Caroline Preece, www.denofgeek.com. June 27, 2013.
“We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.”
“they walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance"....”
“The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.”
“To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.”
“It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.”

Source : Naomi Levy (2007). “Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration”, p.13, Knopf
“The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.”

Source : Marbury v. Madison (1803)
“The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.”

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