Theoretical Quotes

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they`re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they`re out of my league.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn`t want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there`s not much evidence of it.

The Academy of German Law was the meeting place of the most prominent legal minds in Germany in the theoretical and practical fields.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that`s when the silence comes closer; that`s when next isn`t the least bit theoretical or abstract.

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world`s public opinion.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there`s a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.