"Multiple descriptions are better than one."

-- Gregory Bateson

#Description Quotes #Multiple Quotes

“If you think I'm afraid of the steel cage...YOU'RE RIGHT! Please God, don't make me go into the cage!”
“The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.”

Source : C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
“As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.”

Source : Song: God's Gonna Cut You Down, Album: American V: A Hundred Highways, 2006
“I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).”
“None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.”
“The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.”
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
“Surely you donâ€™t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You donâ€™t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”

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