Tool Boxes Quotes:

In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.

- Allen W. Wood

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking, Tool Boxes, Utilitarianism

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

- Christina Ricci

topic: Meaningful, Style, Acting, Different Styles, Tool Boxes

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

- Muhammad Yunus

topic: Country, Teaching, People, Famine, Tool Boxes

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Thinking, Glue, Nails, Screwdrivers, Pliers

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

source: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

topic: Taken, Men, Animal, God's Creation, Tool Boxes

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

- Alexandre Desplat

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Musical, Tools, Band, Jazz Band, Tool Boxes

I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'

- Robin Williams

topic: Sex, People, Drug, Tool Boxes