#seem

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#effects #himself #observer #observing #physics

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#end #paradoxical #philosophy #point #seem

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fate #form #idealists #ideals #obtain

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#favorites #go #i #knack #movies

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. ↗

— Richard Russo

#class #i #i do #just #much

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#calm #even #everything #hurry #inner

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. ↗

— Sallust

#himself #life #live #make #me

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. ↗

— Sallust

#great reward #itself #just #reward #seemed

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. ↗

— George Saunders

#definition #discovered #hasn #me #novel