The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE. — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis… — John Searle Copy Share Image
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place… — David Hillis Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“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… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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