Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2262.
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
Source: The Conduct of Inquiry -
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
Source: On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 3 -
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
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To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary -
Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, ''I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.''
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