![Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.](/assets/img/quote-photos/good-scholars-struggle-to-understand-the-world-in-an-integral-way-pedants-bite-o.jpg)
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struggle thinking long
To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth Richelle Mead
struggle character thinking
Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me. Vincent Kartheiser
struggle fighting class
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Warren Buffett
struggle broken people
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist. Vladimir Lenin
struggle party europe
The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.
struggle socialism achieve
We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.
struggle responsibility successful
By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present. Wayne Dyer
struggle trouble pity
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. Walter de La Mare
reality shadow substance
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood. Richard Whately
reality doors stage
If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show. Russell Hoban
reality years solitude
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. Russell Banks
reality way faces
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility. William S. Burroughs
reality men world
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women... Virginia Woolf
reality giving actors
General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene. Viola Spolin
reality people different
People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality. Wong Kar-wai
reality artist giving
The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half. Woody Allen
reality revolution may
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements. William Whewell
worry
He just said not to worry because it could be something little. Allan Ray
worry
I don't know what's going on, but I don't worry about it, H. Hart
worry
He has so much on his plate, we don't worry about his schedule. Shane Doan
worry problem someday
There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better. Richard Paul Evans
worry anything-goes good-times
Don't worry about anything... Go out and have a good time. Richard P. Feynman
worry battle tomorrow
Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles
worry said wells
I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead. Well, I'm one of them. don't worry - I'm not like the Strigoi. But I did die once (I don't recommend it).
worry bigs big-things
We never worry about the big things, just the small things. Travis Barker
worry bits
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music. Roald Dahl