#theoretical

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#happen #happened #least #september #small

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#account #akin #between #continuity #data

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#capacity #course #does #draws #dynamism

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. ↗

— Rudolf Hilferding

#bourgeois #economics #engages #field #fights

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#because #before #else #experience #fiction

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#archetypes #changed #completely #decades #even

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#mediocre #other #people #physicists #progress

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #big #daughters #every #got

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#better #far #know #league #level