Presupposes Quotes
76 quotes by 73 authors
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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
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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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
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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
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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
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
— Helen Prejean
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Forgiving presupposes remembering.
— Paul Tillich
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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
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Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
— Arnold Schoenberg
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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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