Pseudo Quotes

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.

It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.