To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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