Best Presupposes Sayings
76 Presupposes quotes by 73 unique authors
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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
— Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent…
— Joseph Butler
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Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.
— Allen Shawn
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Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which…
— Martin Buber
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All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.
— Frederick Lenz
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The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself.…
— Michael J. Fox
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
— Denis Diderot
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Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution…
— John L. Lewis
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
— Ayn Rand
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than…
— George Will
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Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Anti-theism presupposes Theism
— Cornelius Van Til
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Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say…
— Marcus Buckingham
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All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
— Laurens van der Post
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Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content…
— Paulo Freire
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Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,…
— Sigmund Freud
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Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of everyday life
— Peter L. Berger
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