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Walker, Mort.

That's the difference between smart guys and dumb guys...smart guys know when to stop.

Peace, Beetle Bailey. (PK316, Charter Books, 1984), l. 5.

SMART PEOPLE; STUPIDITY

19840709

Walton, George.

A democracy cannot fight a prolonged war when there is little glory and few victories.  Our country's general reaction to the start of the conflict can be expressed in one word:  apathy.

Feerless & Free.  (HJ272, Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), p. 241.

DEMOCRACIES - ATTITUDES TO WAR; SEMINOLE WAR; VICTORIES; WAR & DEMOCRACY

19810000

Watkins, Calvert.

Although English is a member of the Germanic branch of Indo-European and retains much of the basic structure of its origin, it has an exceptionally mixed lexicon.

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed. (FIU, 2000), p. ix.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE; INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; VOCABULARY - DIVERSITY

20001124

Watts, Alan.

Thus the task of education is to make children fit to live in a society by persuading them to learn and accept its codes--the rules and conventions of communication whereby the society holds itself together.

The Way of Zen, (UoL, ), p. 5.

CHILDREN; CODES AND LAWS; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION; SOCIETY

19830800

To say, then, that the world of facts and events is maya is to say that facts and events are terms of measurement rather than realities of nature.  We must, however, expand the concept of measurement to include setting bounds of all kinds, whether by descriptive classification or selective screening.

The Way of Zen, (UoL, ), p. 39.

EVENTS; FACTS; MAYA (Buddhist concept); MEASURES; NATURE; REALITY

19830800

There was simply a tradition, embodied in the orally transmitted / doctrine of the Vedas and Upanisads, a tradition that was not specifically "religious" in that it involved a whole way of life and concerned everything from the methods of agriculture to the knowledge of the ultimate reality.

The Way of Zen, (UoL, ), pp. 43-4.

REALITY; RELIGION; TRADITION; UPANISHADS; VEDAS; ZEN - ROOTS

19830800

1.   Samyag-drishti, or complete view.
2.   Samyag-samhalpa, or complete understanding.
3.   Samyag-vaka, or complete (i.e., truthful) speech.
4.   Samyag-karmanta, or complete action.
5.   Samyagaj-iva, or complete vocation.
6.   Samyag-vyayama, or complete application.
7.   Samyag-smriti, or complete recollectedness.
8.   Samyag-samadhi, or complete contemplation.

The Way of Zen, (UoL, ), p. 51.

BUDDHISM; EIGHT-FOLD PATH

19830800

The art [of sitting still] is most difficult for those who have developed the sensitive intellect to such a point that they cannot help making predictions about the future, and so must be kept in a constant whirl of activity to forestall them.

The Way of Zen, (UoL, ), p. 155.

FUTURE, THE; INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTIONS; STILLNESS

19830900

...Zen is a liberation from time.

The Way of Zen, (UoL, ), p. 199.

FREEDOM; TIME; ZEN

19830900

Webber, Robert E.

Consequently, one of the best ways to counteract secularism in education...is for Christians to invade public school education.

"Is Baer Right?",

In:  Christianity Today, (February 17, 1984), p. 19.

CHRISTIANITY VS SECULARISM; EDUCATION, PUBLIC

19840200

Weber, Karl Julius.

All conquerors have swallowed up their faithful subjects well enough.  But conquests are more easily made than kept.  There are three ways to keep them:  to kill all the conquered and turn their country into pastureland; to occupy it with immensely superior force; or to bring to it the blessings of civilization (the Romans' way).

Der lachende Demokritos

in:  Herm, Gerhard.  The Celts, (HJ121, 1976), p. 203.

CIVILIZATION; CONQUESTS; EXTERMINATION; OCCUPATION

19800000

Weber, Stu.

A man was made for reaching goals, climbing mountains, and seeing ahead.

Tender Warrior.  (PR086, Multnomah, 1999, 1993).  p. 32.

CHALLENGES; FORESIGHT; GOALS; MEN; MOUNTAINS; PROVISION; SEEING

20061125

Equality does not mean sameness.  Equal does not mean identical.

Tender Warrior.  (PR086, Multnomah, 1999, 1993).  p. 93.

EQUALITY; IDENTITY; UNIFORMITY

20070210

Wedgwood, C. V..

...the ultimate source of all authority, the power of the sword.

The King's Peace, AUTHORITY, POLITICAL; FORCE; MILITARY POWER; POWER; SWORDS

20040319

Discontent and disorders were signs of energy and hope, not of despair

The King's War, DESPAIR; DISCONTENT; DISORDER; ENERGY (SOCIAL); HOPE

20040418

Weil, Simone.

On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.

Waiting for God, p. 145

in:  Hughes, Daniel. "Pieties & Giant Forms in The Lord of the Rings,"

in:  Hillegas, Mark R.  Shadows of Imagination, (SIU Press, 1979), p. 89.

CREATION; GOD; RESTRAINT

19870914

Weizenbaum, Joseph.

What is wrong...is that we have permitted technological metaphors...and technique itself to so thoroughly pervade our thought processes that we have finally abdicated to technology the very duty to formulate questions.  Thus sensible men correctly perceive that large databanks and enormous networks of computers threaten man.  But they leave it to technology to formulate the corresponding question.

in:  "On the Impact of the Computer on Society," Science, 176:609-14;

in:  Kibirige, Harry M. "Computer-Assisted Reference Service: What the Computer Will Not Do."

in:  RQ 27:382 (1988).

COMPUTERS; INFORMATION - PRIVACY; MANKIND - THREATS TO; QUESTIONS - FORMULATION

19870914

West, Morris.

I have accepted long since that a confession of faith is a confession of not-knowing. I have accepted to trust that the city exists, that the lights are real and that what awaits the pilgrim is homecoming

A View from the Ridge (1996, HP372), p. 2.

CONFESSIONS OF FAITH; DOUBT; HOMECOMING; KNOWLEDGE; PILGRIMS

20000730

On the contrary, reason may become an executioner's ax or an atomic trigger unless the reasons of the heart are spoken to protest the tragic nonsense of human syllogisms.

A View from the Ridge (1996, HP372), p. 5.

CRUELTY; LOGIC; REASON; SYLLOGISMS

20000730

I believe in free will. I believe that I am capable of making a choice between good and evil. I know, however, that neither I nor anyone else is wholly free. Our liberty is abridged in a thousand ways: by physical and psychic dispositions, by ignorance, by fear, by economic pressure, by lack or simple overload of information.

A View from the Ridge (1996, HP372), p. 85.

CHOICE; FREE WILL; GOOD & EVIL; LIMITATIONS

20000821

More and more of the organs of communication are falling into fewer and fewer hands....The power to impose a darkness of the intellect and call it light is now an immediate fact.

A View from the Ridge (1996, HP372), p. 88.

CENSORSHIP; DARKNESS; INTELLECT; MEDIA - CONSOLIDATION

20000821

White, Theodore H.

There is no more masterful or lasting achievement of the human imagination than a great novel.

In Search of History (PJ998, Warner Books, ), p. 449.

ACHIEVEMENTS; IMAGINATION; NOVELS

19800427

Whitehead, Alfred North.

The freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Science and the Modern World.  (Mentor ed.), p. 201;

In:  Kilby, Clyde S.  Christianity and aesthetics (pamphlet), p. 18.

BEING; FRESHNESS; REPETITION

19770000

Those societies which cannot combine reverence for their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stiffled by useless shadows.

"The Barbour-Page Lectures," University of Virginia, 1927.

Symbolism:  Its Meaning and Effect.  (FIUGL, Macmillan, 1927), p. 88.

ANARCHY; ATROPHY; CHANGE; DECAY; FREEDOM; REVERENCE; REVISION; SHADOWS; SOCIETIES; SYMBOLS - CHANGE; TRADITION

20080401

However you may endeavor to expel it [symbolism], it ever returns.  Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration:  it is inherent in the very texture of human life.... Mankind, it seems, has to find a symbol in order to express itself.

"Uses of Symbolism,"

In:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 234.

EXPRESSION; SYMBOLISM; SYMBOLS

19830300

As any epoch some people have the dominant mentality of the past, some of the present, others of the future, and others of the many problematic futures which will never dawn.  For these various groups an old symbolism will have different shades of vague meaning.

"Uses of Symbolism,"

IIn:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 235.

MEANING; SYMBOLS - INTERPRETATIONS

19830300

But in an especial manner, language binds a nation together by the common emotions which it elicits, and is yet the instrument whereby freedom of thought and of individual criticism finds its expression.

"Uses of Symbolism,"

IIn:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 238.

EMOTIONS; EXPRESSION; FREEDOM OF THOUGHT; LANGUAGE & LANGUAGES; NATIONS

19830300

Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.

"Uses of Symbolism,"

IIn:  May, Rollo, ed.  Symbolism in Religion and Literature (UoL, G. Braziller, 1960), p. 250.

ANARCHY; CHANGE; SOCIETY & CHANGE; SYMBOLS

19830300

Whittick, Arnold.

The birth of language would answer this need--a need that may be defined as the feeling that no great advance can be made in thinking about objects without naming them.

Symbols, Signs and their Meaning and Uses in Design.  (FIUGL, Charles T. Branford, 1971), p. 4.

LANGUAGES - ORIGINS; NAMES; OBJECTS; THINKING; WORDS

20050425

Wiener, Norbert A.

...the first industrial revolution, the revolution of the "dark satanic mills," was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery....The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain, at least in its simpler and more rouutine decisions.  Of course, just as the skilled carpernter, the skilled mechanic, the skilled / dressmaker have in some degree survived the first industrial revolution, so the skilled scientist and the skilled administrator may survive the second.  However, taking the second revolution as accomplished, the average human being of mediocre attainment or less has nothing to sell that is worth anyone's money to buy.

Cybernetics (UoL, 1961, 1948 ), pp. 27-28.

ADMINISTRATORS; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; INFORMATION INDUSTRY; INTELLIGENCE (HUMAN); LABOR; SCIENTISTS

19831200

Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybernetics thus stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very comfortable.  We have contributed to the initiation of a new science which...embraces technical developments with great possibilities for good and for evil

Cybernetics (UoL, 1961, 1948 ), p. 28.

CYBERNETICS; GOOD & EVIL; MORALITY; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT - MORALITY

19831200

...the characteristic tendency of entropy is to increase.
    As entropy increases, the universe, and all closed systems in the universe, tend naturally to deteriorate and lose their distinctiveness, to move from the least to the most probable state, from a state of organization and differentiation in which distinctions and forms exist, to a state of chaos and sameness.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, Houghton Mifflin, 1950, 1954), p. 12.

CHAOS; DISTINCTIONS; ENTROPY; ORGANIZATION; UNIFORMITY

19831200

That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives.  Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 21.

CLICHES; COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION; MESSAGES; POEMS

19831200

In a very real sense we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet.  Yet even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them.  We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 40.

APOCALYPSE; DECENCY; DIGNITY; SHIPWRECKS; VALUES, HUMAN

19831200

The best we can hope for the role of progress in a universe running down hill as a whole is that the vision of our attempts to progress in the face of overwhelming necessity may have the purging terror of Greek tragedy.  Yet we live in an age not over-receptive to tragedy.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 41.

PROGRESS; TERROR; TRAGEDY; UNIVERSE

19831200

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principal; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 42.

AMERICANS - BELIEFS; ETHICS; PROGRESS

19831200

For the more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 46.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; SURVIVAL

19831200

...speech is a joint game by the talker and the listener against the forces of confusion.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 92.

CONFUSION; GAMES; LISTENING; SPEAKERS; SPEECH - DEFINITIONS

19831200

Dr. J. Bronowski among others has pointed out that mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually, in terms of the success of this metaphor.

The Human Use of Human Beings (Avon, 1967 (H-M, 1954, 1950)), p. 129.

FACTS; MATHEMATICS; METAPHORS; SCIENCE

19831200

At present, the criminal law speaks now in one language, and now in another.  Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 110.

CRIME; LAW, CRIMINAL; PENOLOGY; PUNISHMENT

19831200

This demand for secrecy is scarcely more than the wish of a sick civilization not to learn of the progress of its own disease.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, Houghton-Mifflin, 1950, 1954), p. 127.

CIVILIZATION - ILLNESSES; FEAR; SECRECY

19831200

Let us remember that the automatic machine...is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor.  Any labot which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.  It is perfectly clear that this will produce an unemployment situation, in comparison with which the present recession and even the depression of the rithies will seem a pleasant joke.

The Human Use of Human Beings (FIUGL, Avon/Discus, 1967, 1950), p. 220.

ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS; LABOR - COMPETITION WITH MACHINERY; LABOR, SLAVE; ROBOTS, INDUSTRIAL; UNEMPLOYMENT

20050225/19831200

When human atoms are knit into an organization in which they are used, not in their full right as responsible human beings, but as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood.  What is used as an element in a machine, is in fact an element in the machine.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, Houghton-Mifflin, 1950, 1954), p. 185.

P. 185 (Houghton-Mifflin) = p. 254 Avon/Discus).

COGS; FLESH & BLOOD; HUMANS; LEVERS; MACHINES; ORGANIZATIONS; RESPONSIBILITY; RODS

19831200

Experience has pretty well convince the working physicist that any idea of nature which is not only difficult to interpret but which actively resist interpretation has not been justified as far as his past work is concerned, and therefore, to be an effective scientist, he must be naïve, and even deliberately naïve, in making the assumption that he is dealing with an honest God, and must ask his questions of the world as an honest man.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 189.

COMPLEXITY; GOD; NATURE; PHYSICISTS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

19831200

A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthily growing science imposes upon it.

The Human Use of Human Beings (UoL, 1950, 1954), p. 193.

DOGMA; FAITH; SCIENCE

19831200

Wilder, Amos N.

See also secondary quote in:  Hunter, Archibald M., HUNTEAMPL35, from Exchatology and Ethics in the New Testament.  (NY:  Harpers, 1950), p. 120.

For when epiphany is powerful, it orders reality.

"The World-Story:  The Biblical View,"

In:  Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. James Breech.  (Bapt. College of Fl., Fortress Pr., 1982), p. 64

EPIPHANIES; ORDERING; POWER; REALITY

20070616

Reality as it is experienced in any time is defined by the scope and repertory of its language, and not least by these larger dramatizations of existence which are part of it.

"Jesus and the War of Myths,"

In:  Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. James Breech.  (Bapt. College of Fl., Fortress Pr., 1982), p. 103.

EXISTENCE; LANGUAGE; MYTHS; REALITY

20070617

In the title of this second part of the book, I speak not of the symbolism, but of the symbolics of Jesus.  This term is intended to point to something more than the images themselves.  It is meant to suggest the social-psychological dimension of the symbol and the whole domain of cultural dynamics.

Quote follows immediately after previous quote, WILDEANJWM103a.

"Jesus and the War of Myths,"

In:  Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. James Breech.  (Bapt. College of Fl., Fortress Pr., 1982), p. 103.

CULTURAL DYNAMICS; IMAGES; JESUS THE CHRIST - TEACHING; JESUS THE CHRIST - SYMBOLS; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLICS - DEFINITIONS; SYMBOLISM

20070617

To know the way of life of a people or a society, one must enter into its myth and dream, its folklore and its art.

"Jesus and the War of Myths,"

In:  Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. James Breech.  (Bapt. College of Fl., Fortress Pr., 1982), p. 109.

ART; DREAMS; FOLKLORE; MYTHS; PEOPLES; SOCIEITIES; UNDERSTANDING

20070617

The modern arts widely reflect a sensibility which not only disowns symbolic legacies, but prizes immediate atomistic perception without interpretation, "happenings," the unrelated epiphany, emancipation from sequence or any kind.

"Jesus and the War of Myths,"

In:  Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. James Breech.  (Bapt. College of Fl., Fortress Pr., 1982), p. 112.

ART - SYMBOLS; ART, MODERN; EPIPHANIES; FREEDOM - ART; IMMEDIACY; SEQUENCES; SYMBOLS - DENIGRATION

20070617

Williams, Charles.

She had the common, vague idea of her age that if your sexual life was all right you were all right, and she had the common vague idea of all ages that if you (and your sexual life) were not all right, it was probably someone else's fault--perhaps undeliberate, but still their fault.

All Hallows Eve (PJ342, Eerdmans, 1948, 1981), p. 12.

AGES OR ERAS; FAULT FINDING; GUILT; RESPONSIBILITY; SEXUALITY - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

19810400

Man's art is perhaps worth little in the end, but it is at least worth its own present / communication.

All Hallows Eve (PJ342, Eerdmans, 1948, 1981), pp. 107-8.

ART; COMMUNICATION; VALUE

19810400

Illusion, to the magician as to the saint, is a great danger.

All Hallows Eve (PJ342, Eerdmans, 1948, 1981), p. 240.

ILLUSIONS; MAGICIANS; SAINTS

19810400.

Williams, Charles, continued

"And yet," he went on as to himself, "by becoming one thing a man ceases to be that which he was, and no one but he can tell how tragic that change may be."

Many Dimensions (PJ241, Eerdmans, 1978, 1949), p. 49.

BECOMING; CHANGE; TRAGEDY

20041206

"I think in a line--but there is the potentiality for the plane."  This perhaps was what great art was--a momentary apprehension of the plane at a point in the line.

"Chief Justice Christopher Arglay"

in Many Dimensions (PJ241, Eerdmans, 1978, 1949), p. 54.

ART; LINE; PLANE; POINT; POTENTIAL

19840423

This argument, though sound within its limits, suffered from the same trouble that invalidates all human argument and makes all human conclusion erroneous, namely, that no reasoning can ever start from the possession of all the facts.

in Many Dimensions (PJ241, Eerdmans, 1978, 1949), p. 209.

ARGUMENTS; CONCLUSIONS; ERRORS; FACTS; LIMITATIONSS; REASON - LIMITS

19840426

Williams, Charles, continued

Man must conquer, but I should feel a sympathy with the last campaign of the brutes.

The Place of the Lion. (PJ242, Eerdmans, 1933, 1978), p. 39

ANIMALS; BRUTES; NATURE, CONQUEST OF

19840601

...only a few devout followers of Wordsworth can in fact find more than mere quiet in the country.  The absence of noise is not in all cases the same thing as the presence of peace.  Wordsworth also found morality there, and no-one [sic] is ever likely to find peace without morality of one sort or another.

The Place of the Lion. (PJ242, Eerdmans, 1933, 1978), p. 96.

NOISE; PEACE & QUIET; QUIET

19840602

The absence of noise is not in all cases the same things as the presence of peace.

The Place of the Lion. (PJ242, Eerdmans, 1933, 1978), p. 96.

COUNTRYSIDE; MORALITY; NOISE; PEACE; PEACE & QUIET; WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM

19840602

...interpretations nearly always were wrong; interpretations in the / nature of things being peculiarly personal and limited.  The act was personal but infinite, the reasoned meaning was personal and finite.  Interpretation of infinity by the finite was pretty certain to be wrong.

The Place of the Lion. (PJ242, Eerdmans, 1933, 1978), pp. 170-1.

ACTIONS; INTERPRETATIONS; MEANING; FINITE & INFINITE

19860126

No mind was so good that it did not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and blindness and bigotry and folly.

The Place of the Lion. (PJ242, Eerdmans, 1933, 1978), p. 187.

BALANCE; BIGOTRY; BLIDNESS; CONCEIT; FOLLY; FRIENDSHIPS; MINDS

20041107

Williams, Charles, continued

...disillusion was as much an illusion as illusion itself.  A thing that seemed had at least the truth of its seeming.  Sir Bernand's mind refused to allow it more but it also refused to allow it less.

Shadows of Ecstasy (PJ243, Eerdmans, 1950, 1933), p. 36.

DISILLUSIONMENT; ILLUSIONS; REALITY; TRUTH

19860622

Williams, Charles, continued

One had views for convenience' sake, but how anyone could think they mattered.

War in Heaven. (PJ239, Eerdmans, 1978), p. 70.

BELIEF; FANTASY

19831000

...and one can more easily believe that institutions are supernatural than that individuals are.  And an institution can believe in itself and can wait, whereas an individual can't.  Batesby can't afford to wait; he might die. [The Archdeacon Julian Davenant]

War in Heaven. (PJ239, Eerdmans, 1978), p. 99.

INDIVIDUAL, THE; INSTITUTIONS; WAITING

19831000

This, which to some would have been the extreme fantasy, was to him the easiest thing to believe.

War in Heaven. (PJ239, Eerdmans, 1978), p. 100.

BELIEF; FANTASY

19831000

But you staunch church people always make me feel like an atheist.

Spoken by the Archdeacon Julian Davenant, in

War in Heaven. (PJ239, Eerdmans, 1978), p. 179.

ATHEISTS; CHURCH MEMBERS; CLERGY; RELIGION

19831000

He said to himself again, as he so often said,"This also is Thou," for desolation as well as abundance was but a means of knowing That which was All. [The Archdeacon Julian Davenant]

War in Heaven. (PJ239, Eerdmans, 1978), p. 240.

GOD - REVELATION

19831000

Williams, Donald T.

If we insist that thoughts about values are really only feelings, and then debunk feelings about values as baseless because the values cannot be stuck into either a test tube or a calculator, we foster barbarism [instead of transmitting civilization.]

Mere Humanity.  (PR195, B&H Publishers, 2006), p. 32.

BARBARISM; CIVILIZATION; CALCULATORS; FEELINGS; SCIENCE - VALUES; TEST TUBES; VALUES

20071104

Surely one lesson of modernism is that a misplaced trust in scientific objectivity leads to cynicism about all objective truth.

Mere Humanity.  (PR195, B&H Publishers, 2006), p. 86.

CYNICISM; MODERNISM; OBJECTIVITY - SCIENCE; SCIENCE - OBJECTIVITY; TRUST; TRUTH - OBJECTIVITY

20080607

Willis, Roy.

The world of myth originates in the scientific and religious artistry of the shaman, and its most conspicuous aspect is that of  play.

"Introduction,"

In:  Willis, Roy, gen. ed.  World Mythology.  (FIUGL, Henry Holt & Co., 1993), p. 16.

ARTISTRY; MYTHS; PLAY; RELIGIOUS INQUIRY; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; SHAMANS

20050811

Wills, Garry.

The only Jesus we have is the Jesus of faith.  If you reject the faith, there is no reason to trust anything the gospels say.

What Jesus Meant.  (RP, Viking, 2006), p. xxvi.

DEMYTHOLOGIZATION; FAITH; GOSPELS - RELIABILITY; JESUS THE CHRIST - HISTORICITY

20080611

Wilson, Alec.

Our law was made by people who play games...and it's only understood by games players.

In:  Huxley, Elspeth.  The Mottled Lizard (, 1962), p. 157.

GAMES; LAWS - ANGLO-SAXONS

19880000

Wilson, John.

If I am going to be able to say correctly that a statement is true, I must necessarily be able to do three things first:
      (i) Know what the statement means.
     (ii) Know the right way to verify it.
    (iii) Have good evidence for believing it.
Unless these three conditions are satisfied, it would be ridiculous to say that the statement is true.

Language and the Pursuit of Truth.  (FIUGL, Cambridge UP, 1967), p. 76.

EVIDENCE; MEANING; TRUTH - DEFINITIONS; VERIFICATION

19890528

Winks, Robin W.

...for a university both demands acculturation and scorns it:  this is its esprit de corps.

Cloak & Gown (HM187, Morrow & Co., 1987), p. 13.

ESPRIT DE CORPS; UNIVERSITIES; HIGHER EDUCATION; ACCULTURATION

19941216

Winship, George P., Jr.

...in our overbookish world we regard philosophy as something that philosophers write and students take tests on, not as love of wisdom, never as truth.

"The Novels of Charles Williams,"

In:  Hillegas, Mark, ed.  Shadows of Imagination (PK116, SIU Press, 1979, 1969), p. 113.

PHILOSOPHERS; PHILOSOPHY; STUDENTS; TESTS; TRUTH; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WISDOM

19870919

Wodehouse, P. G.

Gestures are all very well while the intoxication lasts.  The trouble is that it lasts such a very little while.

Summer Lightning.  (HR058, Folio Society, 2004), p. 212.

GESTURES, GRAND; INTOXICATION; JOY

20060611

The trouble was, he reflected, that Horace was so tall.  A chap of that length didn't really get on to what his feet were doing till some minutes after it happened.

Uncle Fred in the Spring.  (HR060, Folio Society, 2004; 1939), p. 11.

CLUMSINESS; FEET; TALL PEOPLE

20060628

Wolf, Fred Alan.

Perhaps the appearance of the physical world is magical because the orderly processes of science fail to take the observer into account.  The order of the universe may be the order of our own minds.

[Compare with Anthony Stevens quotes from a psychologist's perspective:  STEVEAAC73 and STEVEAAC195.]

Taking the Quantum Leap (PK79, Harper & Row, 1981), p. 6.

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Wolterstorff, Nicholas.

When I now listen to, or read, or look at, or otherwise participate in what they have made, I sometimes feel that these words of mine are but straw and that there is no truly appropriate response to the great art of the world than to cease our chatter and give thanks to God our Creator--to whose glory all good art contributes, sometimes even, one must say with deep sadness, in spite of what the makers intended--for having granted to us his favored creatures that there should be art in our lives.

Art in Action (FIU, Eerdmans, 1980)), p. x.

ART - RESPONSES; ART APPRECIATION - CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES; ART CRITICISM; GOD - CREATOR

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Wood, Frances.

The convention that the lands beyond one's known borders are inhabited by monstrous barbarians is apparently universal...

The Silk Road. (HQ385, Folio Society, 2002), p. 46.

BARBARIANS; BELIEFS - ADULTS; FOREIGNERS; MONSTERS, BELIEFS ABOUT

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Wood, Robert Chapman.

Optical drive makers recognize that despite Japanese manufacturing excellence, the United States still leads in almost every area of creative development.

"Galloping Gigabytes!"

in:  PC/Computing (April, 1989), p. 175.

CREATIVITY - UNITED STATES; MANUFACTURING - JAPAN; JAPAN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Worsthorne, Peregrine.

Only in America are individual rights the heart of the myth by which the nation lives.

Sunday Telegraph (London, 9/14/1986), p. ?.

CIVIL RIGHTS; MYTHS, NATIONAL; NATION; RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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