Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc. , depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must make intuition reports, as they record the contents of their intuitions. But they need not go into whether an intuition has been enjoyed.
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting. . . But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.
People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on. " They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.
It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. . . . Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. . . . Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.