#theo

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#based #bias #cultural #culture #except

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#around #beings #belief #besides #conscious

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#first #itself #literary #literature #only

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#comes #common #deconstruction #i #i think

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#any #christian #continues #deeper #each

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#blogs #could #diaries #diary #good

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#because #create #cutting #economy #fall

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#command #dependent #detailed #each #grow

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#difference #practice #theory