Tendency Quotes (3)
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
Victor K. McElhenty, Insisting on the Impossible, 245.
See also: | Attempt (7) | Destroy (8) | Explanation (26) | Increase (5) | Premature (4) | Seek (7) | Thrill (2)
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
The World as Will and Idea translated by Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane, John Kemp (3rd. Ed.,1888), Vol. 2, 318-319.
See also: | Empirical (2) | Eye (16) | Face (6) | Philosophy (77) | Prosecute (2) | Sake (2) | Science (463)
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.
The Oil Industry in the North American State of Pennsylvania and in the Caucasus (1877). Translated by H. M. Leicester, from the original in Russian, in 'Mendeleev's Visit to America', Journal of Chemical Education (1957), 34, 333.
See also: | America (14) | Best (3) | Civilization (46) | Dawn (2) | Development (27) | Europe (7) | Fraud (4) | Germany (3) | India (2) | Middle (2) | Negro (3) | Nonsense (6) | Poetry (37) | Politics (20) | Question (52) | Science (463) | Solution (49) | United States (5) | Vote (3) | Worst (4)
