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Presumption Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
- From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not…
- I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
- Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the…
- Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
More Presumption Quotes
- People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale
- When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Louis XI of France
- Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens
- Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume
- But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men. — William Shakespeare
- People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I… — Cory Booker
- Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei
- Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas
- I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption… — Abraham Lincoln
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume
- Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they… — Alexander Hamilton