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An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the…

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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action.… — Elisabeth Elliot
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who… — Mahatma Gandhi
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first… — Charles Caleb Colton
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of… — Orrin Hatch
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. — Sun Tzu
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want… — John C. Maxwell
This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the… — Francois Mauriac
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one… — Immanuel Kant

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