Best Presupposes Quotes
76 Presupposes quotes by 73 unique authors
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Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if…
— Leo Buscaglia
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One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status…
— C.D. Wright
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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually…
— William Ames
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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their…
— Johan Huizinga
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The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
— Edmund Husserl
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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and…
— Immanuel Kant
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Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
— Jacques Chirac
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of…
— Ayn Rand
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against…
— Leon Trotsky
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People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Agency presupposes choice.
— Jerome Bruner
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But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
— William O. Douglas
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
— Andre Gide
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They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be…
— James Fitzjames Stephen
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[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.
— Vincent de Paul
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When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have…
— Mae Jemison
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It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,…
— John von Neumann
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And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it…
— Robert Musil
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Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a…
— Learned Hand
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel…
— Albert Camus
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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an…
— Rollo May
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Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective…
— Gerhard Richter
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