If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look… — Troy Walker Copy Share Image
It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain,… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after;… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise,… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — George C. Edwards III Copy Share Image
Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
What is a fair shot for a job applicant? An interview? Or getting the job? See, with Obama, the opportunity is not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take… — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whereas non-scientific (and potentially dangerous) thinking starts with a premise and then looks for things that support it, scientific thinking constantly tries… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
