When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces…

“The most important reason why a path seems very difficult is that as soon as you see it, you demotivate yourself by thinking that…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

— Randy Alcorn

What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones.…

— Kevin Keck

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance…

— Peter Drucker

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

— Akira Kurosawa

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more…

— Roland Allen

“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;…

— Martin Heidegger

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

— Pearl S. Buck

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and…

— Laurence Steinberg

“Knowledge as a past fact, as something dead and done with—knowledge by the time it gets into encyclopaedias and text-books—does consist of assertion, and…

— R. G. Collingwood

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him…

— Carl Jung

Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is…

— Ron Paul