Saul Kripke Famous Quotes & Sayings
25 Saul Kripke Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.— Henry Holmes Smith
I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.— Tommy Lee Jones
Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live.— Bryant McGill
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.— Saul Kripke
Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.— Orrin Hatch
I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps ... Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.— Saul Kripke
Great blessings require great commitment and determination.— Bryant McGill
I wish I could have skipped college.— Saul Kripke
Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.— Chris Matakas
Hey, moose! I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.— Rick Riordan
I want to read philosophers.— Saul Kripke
Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.— Saul Kripke
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.— Saul Kripke
Proper names are rigid designators.— Saul Kripke
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.— Saul Kripke
Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if that is not the case. Of course we don't require that the objects exist in all possible worlds ... When we think of a property as essential to an object we usually mean that it is true of that object in any case where it would have existed. A rigid designator of a necessary existent can be called strongly rigid.— Saul Kripke
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.— Andrew Solomon
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.— Saint Teresa Of Avila
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God— William Paul Young
is able to transform these into something they could have never
been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep
mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a
ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless
affection."
"Is it worth it?" whispered Tony.
"Wrong question, son. There is no 'it.' The question is and
has always been, 'Are you worth it?' and the answer is and
always, 'Yes!'
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.— Immanuel Kant
The adventurous state of mind is a high house ... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.— Agnes Martin
Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.— Saul Kripke
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary— Saul Kripke
philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.
I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.— Kevyn Aucoin
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.— Saul Kripke
