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“Theories aren’t the same when you actually have to start using them.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake

“А тепер ми підходимо до теорії розбитих вікон, яка стосується злочинності. Її сформулювали Джеймс Вілсон і Джордж Келлінг. Вони припустили, що з дрібних ознак міського безладу — сміття, графіті, розбитих вікон, пияків у громадських місцях — формується слизький схил, що веде до більших ознак безладу і підвищення рівня злочинності. Чому? Бо сміття й графіті як норма означають, що людям байдуже або вони безсилі цьому протистояти, а це вже пряме запрошення смітити чи робити щось гірше.”
― Роберт Сапольски, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“architecture interferes with people’s lives, the way people use and occupy space, as well as with the individual sense of the aesthetico-ethical categories such as beauty and propriety.”
― Gordana Fontana-Giusti

“For Hobbes the Church was merely a department of the State, to be run exactly as the king thought best. Bramhall does not tell us clearly v/hat would be the duties of a private citizen if the king should violate or overturn the Christian religion, but he obviously leaves a wide expedient margin for resistance or justified rebellion. It is curious that the system of Hobbes, as Dr. Sparrow-Simpson has observed, not only insists on autocracy but tolerates unjustified revolution. Hobbes's theory is in some ways very near to that of Machiavelli, with this important exception, that he has none of Machiavelli’s profound observation and none of Machiavelli's limiting wisdom. The sole test and justification for Hobbes is in the end merely material success. For Hobbes all standards of good and evil are frankly relative.”
― T.S. Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays Ancient & Modern

“Just as there are several components of the immune system, each of which protects us against particular kinds of invasions, there are subtypes of emotion that protect us against a variety of particular kinds of threats.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get you very far. A person with severe depression typically loses interest in everything -work, friends, food, even sex. It is as if the capacities for pleasure and initiative have been turned off. Some people cry spontaneously, but others are beyond tears. Some wake every morning at 4 A.M. and can't get back to sleep; others sleep for twelve or fourteen hours per day. Some have delusions that they are impoverished, stupid, ugly, or dying of cancer. Almost all have low self-esteem. It seems preposterous even to consider that there should be anything adaptive associated with such symptoms. And yet depression is so frequent, and so closely related to ordinary sadness, that we must begin by asking if depression arises from a basic abnormality or if it is a dysregulation of a normal capacity.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Therapists have long known that may depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their behavior, and they have idiosyncratic goals and ambitions. They have networks of friends and relatives.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“knowledge, wisdom and philosophy counsels pends the remedies aglory”
― Ben Jr Grey,

“Suicide can help pass on an individual's genes to the next generation in a situation where that individual is a burden to their close relatives and their own reproductive potential is weak. By taking their life, an individual may contribute to the reproductive success of their close relatives and thus to the proliferation of their own genes. In such a case, that individual's close relatives would have one mouth less to feed and no sick individual to look after. Indeed, several studies have shown that suicidal thoughts and suicides are more common in those who have poor chances of reproduction and who feel they are merely a burden to their loved ones.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“Major depressive disorder is a disease caused by features of the contemporary Western lifestyle: social isolation, limited physical activity, chronic stress and unhealthy food.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“DJ Kyos 3M Theory says :

A song or an album becomes a flop because of MMM that is Mixing, Mastering and Marketing.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The theory that we study today, and that appears to us impractical, might have implications in the future.... Who can imagine the repercussions of an enigma through the centuries?”
― Malba Tahan, The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning to suspect the consequences of his own existence; he therefore dips into his store of experiences for some means of warding off the danger, although he does not really believe in them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Masochism, however, slowly passes on not only to thwarting another will through complete submission, but to exhibiting and proving this failure in a peculiar way. Here is one phantasy as an example: A young man had been refused a new car by his father, in place of his old damaged one. One of the son’s daydreams dealt with the possibility that, while driving this broken-down car, he would be involved in an accident in front of his father’s shop. The car would run right into the show windows and he, covered with blood, would be carried into his father’s office. Don’t say that this only shows that in masochism the tendency prevails to “cut one’s nose to spite one’s face.” It is not only one’s own face that is damaged in such phantasies, it is the other one’s too. He "loses face” as the Chinese would say. He loses prestige. The father in this phantasy was to be convinced that his refusal was nonsensical and his behavior absurd. There is the concealed hope: It will hurt him more than me. By pursuing the course prescribed to him to the very end, the masochist demonstrates that it is the wrong course. It is like the hara-kiri of the Japanese. It is incorrect to assume that masochism is introverted sadism, a violent instinctual inclination that later became directed against the ego. In spite of all and at the bottom, its object remains the other person. We could rather term it sadism put on its head, violence upside down.”
― Theodor Reik, Masochism In Modern Man

“Euphemism is the cheapest metaphor
In the aisle of the dollar store
Along with the headless Barbies and obscure bits of bright plastic.”
― Sarah Tolmie, The Art of Dying (Volume 41)

“One lesson is that to be second is not to be secondary or inferior; likewise, to be first is not to be originary or authoritative. Yet, as we shall see, disparaging opinions on adaptation as a secondary mode—belated and therefore derivative—persist. One aim of this book is to challenge that denigration.”
― Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation

“The science of pressurized airplanes is well understood, but Boeing forgot some of the theory.”
― Steven Magee

“There's still so much that gets taught and passed around in the martial arts that's based on theory and not on data. There's so much that gets taught based on somebody's theory about what would happen in a fight. I tell people, "Look, the work has been for you. This is what happens when fights hit the ground. This is what works." Guys come in with these ideas about biting and poking eyes and grabbing fingers, thinking that they can strike their way out when they get stuck. They've never done these things, and they've never trained with anybody who's done them successfully. Their whole plan is based on theory, on what they think might happen.”
― Richard Bresler, Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life

“If you only study the theory of combat, then the response to an attack will be a theory.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“What is in an age other than the time? What is in a name other than an identity? Nothing makes a person other than their soul.”
― Dina Husseini

“A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.”
― Francis Crick

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― Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

“By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into an uncanny stranger on display- the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions.”
― Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

“Samuel Gregg: Certainly, Smith notes, Einstein was right to claim that the theories designed by humans are important tools for comprehending reality. Yet before there is theory, Smith adds, there is thought and reason, a logical sequence that, he says, finds it parallel in the opening verse of the gospel of John: “In the beginning was the Word [Logos], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1 KJV).”
― Vernon L. Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics

“But you cannot derive the existence of those objects and the richness of the theory from the sparse indirect effects and the measurements we record— theory is resolutely underdetermined by observation. You can only do the reverse: deduce from those constructed things and model their implications for what we can expect to observe.”
― Vernon L. Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics

“The more I settle on the notion that time is indeed an illusion, the more my everyday reality proves this to be true. Everything is happening all at once. Manifestations, the physical embodiment of your ideas, are instant. There is no waiting.”
― Robin S. Baker

“The consumption celebrity superficially represents different types of personality and shows each of these types having equal access to the totality of consumption and finding similar happiness there. The decision celebrity must possess a complete stock of accepted human qualities. Official differences between stars are wiped out by the official similarity which is the presupposition of their excellence in everything.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle