#intrinsic

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#because #belongs #country #excellent #feel

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

— Saul Bass

#intrinsic-motivation #beauty

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

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. ↗

— Alice Walker

#good #happened #intrinsic #language #part

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. ↗

— John Barth

#attributed #everything #intrinsically #itself #nothing

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. ↗

— Ina Garten

#enhance #flavors #fresh #fresh ingredients #good

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay