Finality Quotes - Page 3

• Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature'-as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.

  Karl Popper

  Naturaleza, Ciencia, Hombres

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• No veo el fracaso como una muerte, no veo el fracaso como algo definitivo. Simplemente lo miro, me levanto y digo "no deberíamos haberlo hecho" y sigo adelante.

  Robert Herjavec

  Moving, Looks, Done

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• I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.

  Diana Faraón Francisco

  Mistake, Eye, Epic

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• I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "More than anything. I'm only half without you." "Then you are my woman." His words were finality, a bond he would not permit broken. She had given herself to his keeping. He would never let her go. "And you'll never leave me?" she pressed. "I'll stay with you for all of ever, lass." Jane's eyes flared, and she looked at him strangely. "And then yet another day?" she asked breathlessly. "Oh, aye.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Lonely, Eye, Simply You

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Into the Dreaming (with bonus material)”, p.87, Delacorte Press

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• Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

  Sara Shandler

  Elderly, People, Age

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• El Universo es inmenso. Nada es más curioso que el dogmatismo autocomplaciente con el que la humanidad, en cada período de su historia, abriga la ilusión de la finalidad de los modos de conocimiento existentes. Escépticos y creyentes son por igual. En este momento, científicos y escépticos son los principales dogmáticos. Se admite el avance en los detalles; se prohíbe la novedad fundamental. Este sentido común dogmático es la muerte de la aventura filosófica.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Aventura, Ser, Sentido Común

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• Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

  David Lynch

  Sleep, Night, New Day

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• In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Fall, People, Forever

  Source: quarterlyconversation.com

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• ¿Y de qué sirve que la ciencia haya llegado a tratar el espacio y el tiempo como simples formas de pensamiento, y el mundo material como hipotético, y que nuestra pretensión de propiedad e incluso de mismidad se estén desvaneciendo con el resto, si, finalmente, ni siquiera nuestros pensamientos son finalidades, sino que el incesante fluir y ascensión alcanzan también a éstos, y cada pensamiento que ayer era una finalidad, hoy está cediendo a una generalización mayor?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Conocimiento, Pensamiento, Reflexión

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Penguin

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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Creer, Uno Mismo

  Eric Hoffer (1982). "Entre el diablo y el dragón: Los mejores ensayos y aforismos de Eric Hoffer", HarperCollins Publishers

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• I just think it's a time where there is a lot of uncertainty. People are questioning life and the finality of life and what happens in the after life. I think sometimes when religions aren't answering certain questions people search elsewhere.

  James Van Praagh

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Fuente: www.cyinterview.com

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• The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death is another such moment. It would be interesting to explore Proust's great novel from the perspective of seeing how stable synthetic complexes are formed and modified.

  Philip Kitcher

  Grandmother, Interesting, Perspective

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Knowledge, Loss

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.44, 谷月社

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• The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.

  Scott Cohen

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

  Gaston Bachelard

  States, Impermanence

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• Quiero decir que hay una cierta finalidad en una película: cuando se hace, se hace; esa ceja levantada en ese momento siempre será esa ceja levantada. Mientras que una obra de teatro sólo vive como un plano para una representación en una noche determinada. Hay una razón por la que puedes comer palomitas y ver una película y no puedes hacer eso en el teatro. En el teatro tienes que inclinarte, tienes que afinar el oído al escenario y participarI responder al calor. Y a la sangre. Y a la humanidad. La experiencia fría no es para mí. Siempre he disfrutado de toda la gente real reunida en una sala en el teatro.

  Tracy Letts

  Real, Mean, Night

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Grief, Order, Amusement

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Boys, Hair, Sight

  "The Amulet of Samarkand". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

  Jon Krakauer

  Heart, Appreciate, Youth

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Blow, Men, Weakness

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

  Philip Larkin

  Attitude, Age, Finals

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• Tener que exprimir la última gota de utilidad de la tierra tiene la misma finalidad desesperada que tener que trocear los muebles para calentarse.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Land, Lasts

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• It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

  Robert Kennedy

  Forever, Growth, Society

  Robert F. Kennedy (1962). “"We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World that We are Just Friends and Brave Enemies". (1. Ed.)”

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• Lo que creo es un proceso más que una finalidad.

  Emma Goldman

  Believe, I Believe, Process

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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