#standing

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #authors #book #changes #faithful

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#basic #basic understanding #citizenry #deserves #how

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brain #feel #good #joyous #like

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concert hall #day #every #every day #hall

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#commercials #director #down #hollywood #i

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ↗

— George Savile

#evidence #give #little #make #men

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#change #changes #humanity #makes #materially

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#either #had #least #love #love me