In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
