"The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least that is so outside the epistemology of the a priori."

-- Ernest Sosa

#Philosophical Quotes #Data Quotes #Epistemology Quotes

“Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?”
“The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.”
“Who's thisâ€”alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and Iâ€” It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone and grass and tree. What share we mostâ€”we two together? Smells, and awareness of the weather. What is it makes us more than dust? My trust in him; in me his trust.”
“Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.”
“Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.”
“I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!”
“Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.”
“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

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