Admitting Quote by Richard Dawkins

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

— Richard Dawkins

“It is important to distinguish between reductionism as a philosophical posi- tion (or world-view) and as a methodology. Reductionism in the former sense is…

— E. Brian Davies

Reductionism is merciless.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

— Oscar Wilde

“The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, "I am declining," transposed into the imperative, "all of you…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for…

— John Nelson Darby

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

— David Hume

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much…

— Harriet Martineau

I'm not so sure that I am a reductionist in the strict type-identity sense. The issues here are messy. But I certainly a reductionist…

— David Papineau

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

— John Dryden

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

— Georges Bernanos