Permissible Quotes
59 quotes by 56 authors
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
— Seneca the Younger
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
— Herbert Spencer
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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in…
— Carl Sagan
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion…
— Galileo Galilei
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All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they…
— Niels Henrik Abel
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Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. Let the man who is to serve you…
— Martin of Tours
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Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold…
— Miranda Hart
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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has…
— Alan Paton
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
— Austin O'Malley
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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say,…
— Robert Fisk
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My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous. . . . There are times — certain set and limited circumstances — when it is permissible…
— Dan Savage
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The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a…
— Eugene Wigner
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I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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