#intrinsic

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#built #cabin #elements #house #idea

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#any #boring #course #dangerous #does

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#age #australian #band #brothers #bunch

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#excellent #honorable #intrinsically #men #pleasant

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #could #different #foreign #intrinsically

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#intrinsically #moral #more #most #neither

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. ↗

— Jackie Weaver

#because #been #bored #come #doing

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