“The cat’s A.I. was realistic, right down to the total lack of loyalty.””
Quotes by A. E. Taylor
“It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be no light at all, not even the "dry light" of the sciences themselves: nothing venture, nothing have.””
“E a, agora que estou sem ela, com mais dinheiro do que tempo para gastar, com meu nome carimbado na história do cinema, percebo o quanto isso é vazio, e me torturo por ter escolhido isso em vez de me orgulhar do meu amor. Mas isso é um luxo. Só quem é rico e famoso pode fazer isso. Concluir que o dinheiro e a fama, depois que obtidos, não valem nada.””
“The soul is itself the very principle of life, and produces life everywhere where it is present. Life is thus an essential attribute of soul. Consequently death, the opposite of life, can never be truly predicated of that which is the principle of life itself. A dead soul would be a contradiction in terms. The soul, therefore, is deathless, and it is an easy inference that what can survive death is absolutely indestructible." - A.E. Taylor, On Plato's Phaedo””
“Plato has done his best to make it quite clear that he took no great interest in "system making." To him philosophy meant no compact body of "results" to be learned, but a life spent in the active personal pursuit of truth and goodness by the light of one or two great passionate convictions.””
A. E. TaylorA. E. Taylor was a prominent Scottish philosopher and educator, best known for his contributions to metaphysics and ethics. Born in 1869, he pursued his education at the University of Edinburgh, where...