| |
|
|
| |
|
|
The real world can be
Hard to describe with first or-
-der logic but try
A haiku on the downfall of ontologies
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| books |
Dec. 15, 2018, 12:27 p.m. |
| |
|
|
|
| Larry Elder |
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. |
| Margaret Haddix |
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe. |
| Marilyn Manson |
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. |
| Barry Eisler |
At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism. |
| Jane Jacobs |
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. |
| Gwyneth Paltrow |
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. |
| Simone de Beauvoir |
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. |
| Taylor Hackford |
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world. |
| John Badham |
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk. |
| Jennifer Egan |
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them. |
|