The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
“Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc 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
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“But consider the utter insignificance of what we think we do know, compared to what there is to know. To conclude that… — Mark Millstorm Copy Share Image
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last… — E. L. Doctorow 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
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought… — William James Copy Share Image
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