Validity Quotes

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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. — C.S. Lewis
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute… — Thomas Huxley
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some… — John Stuart Mill
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon… — Susie Orbach
To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.… — Judith Orloff
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the… — Hans Reichenbach
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping… — Julian Huxley
So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear, you have created… — Rajneesh
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a… — D. M. Thomas
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. — Hans Rookmaaker
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon… — William Ralph Inge
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common… — Pope John Paul II
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation. — Thomas Huxley
The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. — James Madison
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the… — Alexander Hamilton
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler

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