Asserted Quotes

72 quotes by 64 authors

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings… — Melanie Klein
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. — Jonathan Raban
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great… — Jefferson Davis
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and… — Orson Pratt
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians… — Ramsay MacMullen
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and… — Derek Bok
"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I… — James Keller
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause. — David Hume
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey. — Loren Eiseley
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man. — C.S. Lewis
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about… — Angela Davis
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In… — Carl Jung
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse… — E F Schumacher
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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