I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
