Antecedent Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some…
— John Stuart Mill
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Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to…
— Henry Steele Commager
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If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being…
— Aristotle
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The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there…
— Lemuel Haynes
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Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported…
— Brooke Westcott
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Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at…
— Albert Pike
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the…
— Mishka
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The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits…
— David Shibley
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably…
— Ezra Pound
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
— Herbert Read
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
— Cormac McCarthy
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When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying…
— Bertrand Russell
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Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
— Herbert Read
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I am a determinist...The real issue, so far as the will is concerned, is not whether we can do what we choose to do, but…
— Brand Blanshard
Who Wrote These Antecedent Quotes
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