Kinds - Quotes
Love? Well, yes. There are so many kinds. There’s eros: simplest and most transient of all. There’s philia: friendship; loyalty. There’s storge: the affection a child gives its parents. There’s thelema: the desire to perform. Then there’s agape: platonic love; for a friend; for a world; love for a stranger you’ve never met; the love of all humanity.
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. ?
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way".
In the development of mathematical ideas, one important initial driving force has always been to find mathematical structures that accurately mirror the behaviour of the physical world. But it is normally not possible to examine the physical world itself in such precise detail that appropriately clear-cut mathematical notions can be abstracted directly from it. Instead, progress is made because mathematical notions tend to have a "momentum" of their own that appears to spring almost entirely from within the subject itself. Mathematical ideas develop, and various kinds of problem seem to arise naturally.
There are two kinds of people: ones that are trying to build their future and ones that are trying to rebuild their past.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
It doesn`t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational - or, in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don`t.