I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I… — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition. — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy… — Eric Schneiderman Copy Share Image
But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long… — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image