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source: Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

topic: Legends, Philosopher, Armchairs

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Dream, Art, Balance, Armchairs

What I dream of is an art of balance.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Dream, Art, Balance, Armchairs, Subject Matter

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

topic: Dog, Kings, Views, Armchairs

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

- Arthur Smith

topic: Rain, Guy, Kind, Armchairs

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

- James Thurber

topic: Past, Sound, Comedy, Armchairs, Attics

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Home, Writing, Marijuana, Armchairs

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.46, Penguin

topic: Teacher, Prayer, Benches, Armchairs

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

- Oscar W. Firkins

source: Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

topic: Peace, Men, Dinner, Armchairs

She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Real, Cat, Grandmother, Armchairs, Late Afternoon

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Eye, Giving, Clockwork Angel, Armchairs

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Art, Illness And Death, Protection, Armchairs

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

- Nelson Mandela

source: Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspiring, Mistake, Errors, Armchairs, Political Action

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

- Ayana Mathis

source: FaceBook post by Ayana Mathis from May 14, 2017

topic: Rain, Dark, Clouds, Armchairs, Dark Days

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Winning, Men, Heaven, Armchairs

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

- Laura Lee

topic: Reading, Adventure, Able, Armchairs

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Book, Hands, Doubt, Insensitivity, Armchairs

From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.

- Paul Otlet

topic: Distance, Able, Way, Armchairs

I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Brother, Art, Book, Armchairs, Verify

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Real, People, Fields, Armchairs

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

- Leslie Jamison

topic: Writing, Class, Long, Armchairs

The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

- Anais Nin

topic: Writing, Imagination, Black, Armchairs

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.

- Isoroku Yamamoto

source: "At Dawn We Slept". Book by Donald M Goldstein, Gordon Prange, and Katherine V. Dillon, 1981.

topic: War, Sacrifice, Japan, Armchairs, Guam

The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.

- Hilary Kornblith

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking, Armchairs

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

- Nick Cave

topic: Dirty, Garden, Knees, Armchairs

What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

- Henri

topic: Art, Men, Brain, Armchairs, Artists And Writers

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

- Don Henley

source: Song: The End of the Innocence, Album: The End of the Innocence

topic: Warrior, Fairy Tale, Failing, Armchairs

They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.22, A&C Black

topic: Party, Winning, Forever, Armchairs

Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must." "I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically." "None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow. "How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Mean, Eye, Angel, Clockwork Angel, Armchairs

Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.

- Muriel Barbery

source: "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

topic: Moving, Writing, Cat, Armchairs

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

- Alice Munro

source: Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.421, Random House

topic: Coffee, Book, Hands, Armchairs, Mug

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Two, Old Friends, Wish, Armchairs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

- Audrey Niffenegger

source: Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

topic: Book, Four, Couches, Armchairs

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

- Maeve Binchy

source: Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

topic: Reading, Thinking, Parent, Armchairs

I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A hammock in a freshly mown backyard? A verandah overlooking the summer sea? Good choices, every one. But I have no doubt that they are all merely displacements, sentimental attempts to replicate the warmth and snugness of my mother's lap.

- Michael Dirda

topic: Summer, Mother, Reading, Armchairs, Hammocks

O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence

- Don Henley

topic: Beautiful, Song, Kings, Armchairs

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Art, Armchairs, Attention Seeking

Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.

- Carl Froch

topic: Motivation, Fighting, Next, Armchairs

It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.

- Benoite Groult

topic: Life, Kitchen, Meals, Armchairs

The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about the relevance of empirical work to philosophy, a good deal of their work is devoted to understanding features of our folk concepts, and in this respect, at least, I see them as making the same mistake as those armchair philosophers who are interested in conceptual analysis.

- Hilary Kornblith

topic: Philosophy, Mistake, Agreement, Armchairs, Making The Same Mistakes

It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot.

- Hilary Kornblith

topic: Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical, Armchairs

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

- Alex Gibney

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: People, Easy, Analysts, Armchairs, Easy To Get

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