Vagueness Quotes - Page 3

• In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.

  Henry James

  Art, Drama, Essence

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13640, Delphi Classics

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• Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

  Norbert Wiener

  Ideas, Degrees, Matter

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• Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.

  Catherine Wilson

  Snow, Common Sense, Water

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

  William James

  Race, Free Will, Impulse

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Self

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.31, Penguin

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• The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.

  Edward Jenks

  Real, 4th Of July, Long

  "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.

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• It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Self, People

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• Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

  Alexander Theroux

  Yellow

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• Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Eggs, Battle

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