#logic

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

#any #binds #called #concept #contrary

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#another #decide #does #ego #freedom

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. ↗

— Fred Frith

#associations #because #habits #i #i write

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic. ↗

— Fred Frith

#candy #context #doing #during #enjoyed

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#biologically #creates #fixed #given #human

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#balanced #biological #climate #cycles #diversity

Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#also #aspiration #attacks #biological #chemical