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Validity Quotes by Gertrude Himmelfarb
- 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…
- The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the…
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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… — 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… — Thomas Huxley
- The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have… — 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… — Susie Orbach
- To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered… — Judith Orloff
- The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical… — Hans Reichenbach
- ...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley
- So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear,… — Rajneesh
- ...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most… — Thomas Sprat
- Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — 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… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
- Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. — Hans Rookmaaker