#intrinsic

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#now #politics #technology #tool #tools

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived. ↗

— John Searle

#derived #intrinsic #just #utterance #whereas

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#i #intrinsic #like #put #science

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#integrity #intrinsic-motivation #simons-rock #transcendence #wind

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. ↗

— Saul Bass

#intrinsic-motivation #beauty

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#definitely #else #everyone #intrinsic #makes

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #bite #doubted #dust #eventually

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#evil #genocide #happen #happens #intrinsically

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic