Sentences with phrase «great philosophers once»

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The famous philosopher and political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli once said, «Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.»

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

As the great philosopher Tim «Lint» Armstrong once said: «All I know is that I don't know nothing.

Yet Sir Karl Popper, a great philosopher of science, once commented that «science doesn't make assertions about ultimate questions - about the riddles of existence».

The great French philosopher, mystic, and factory worker, Simone Weil once wrote, «The habit of attention is the substance of prayer.»

«Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth... one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the whole corpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis... He must at once be a Thomist and an Atomist; until that reconciliation is attempted, the pulpit and the laboratory will be forever at cross-purposes.»

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

Sometimes theologians and philosophers spend their time either «paying God metaphysical compliments,» as Whitehead once phrased it, or in assuming that for his greater glory they must make him utterly alien to everything that we know and experience and care for.

As the great philosopher Larry David once said: pretty, pretty, pretty good.

«The Boston Globe once accused Mario Cuomo of being the «great philosopher statesman of the American nation,»» says O'Shaughnessy.

As Friedrich Hayek — himself a lawyer and political philosopher as well as a Nobel Prize winning economist — once remarked, nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist.

As the pioneering psychologist and philosopher, William James, once said, «The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.»

British philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer once wrote that, «The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.»

The great French philosopher Rene Descartes once said, «He lives well who is well hidden.»

Once a human philosopher, he was turned into a demonic priest through the power of the Archfiend and now commands the Four Greater Fiends.

The great Greek philosopher Aristotle once said, «It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace».

The great comic and tongue - and - cheek philosopher, Groucho Marx once said, «Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.»

A great «philosopher» once said, «Trying to understand women is like trying to smell the color nine.»