Presupposes Quotes

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent,… — Louis Aragon
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. — Ludwig von Mises
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a… — Felix Frankfurter
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in… — C.S. Lewis
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither… — Roy Crowson
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's… — Fernando Pessoa
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent… — Sun Tzu
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different… — Pope Benedict XVI
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established… — George Washington
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the… — Gilles Deleuze
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. — Elias Canetti
This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be… — Fredrik Bajer
Forgiving presupposes remembering. — Paul Tillich
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky
Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener — Arnold Schoenberg
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… — Ariel Dorfman

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