"To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions."

-- Wilfrid Sellars

#Order Quotes #Color Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.”
“Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.”

Source : Song: Addicted to Love
“Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.”
“To love each other's essence and to be one-what could be more divine!”

Source : Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”
“I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'”
“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”
“We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”

Source : John Lanchester (2000). “Mr. Phillips”, Putnam Adult

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