#stan

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#dualism #explicit #first #matter #mind

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#children #could #discovered #get #got

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#goodness #idea #plato #stands #supreme

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#consciously #less #peace #rate #understand

Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation. ↗

— Tom Baker

#better #feel #give #good #had

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ↗

— Monica Baldwin

#size #spider #substance #web #wisp

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#going #gwyneth #gwyneth paltrow #her #i

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#intuitively #language #most #people #understand

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#call #could #everything #i #instant

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature