“Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.” IfsAcceptingParticularAgreementYieldRejectedJustifiedUnwillingInference Book:Problems and projects Source: Problems and projects
“Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.” BelieveMayMatterPoliticalLanguageForceI BelieveMistakeAcceptingParticularSpeechJudgmentFavorsDoctrineCensorshipSexistLabelingSociologicalDesirability Author:Neil Postman
“We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.” WantFactsLawUniverseUnderstandingAcceptingParticularStrangeMake SenseFeaturesLaws Of NatureBrutes Author:Sean M. Carroll
“To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.” PastChurchViewsAcceptingParticularAffairRefuseProgressiveUnreasonableUnsafe Author:George Trumbull Ladd
“If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.” IfsLinesAcceptingMoralParticularDisciplineAcceptedSurrealism Author:Andre Breton
“We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingYearsSometimesWantedFeltAcceptingParticularMouthsCreditHeyOddInterpretationReviewers Author:John Lennon
“Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, "Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences"? Oh! but you say, "I don't know what He will want next." No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.” KnowsWantHeartHandsNextAsksWishVoiceWalksAcceptingLordPathSacrificeParticularSafeConsequenceCrossesEmbraceTheeYieldSubmitPledgeWish You Author:Catherine Booth
“Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'” MenWould BeLawNaturalViewsAcceptingOpinionPrinciplesParticularJudgingTheoryHigherJudgmentOrdinaryConscienceStatementsAbsurdityInvitedRule Of LawNatural LawOrdinary ManConsonantsJurorsHigher Law Author:John Adams
“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.” PeopleMeanEndsPhilosophyHappensCertainValuesInterestAcceptingParticularNormalRelationInstitutionsUsualNoticing Author:Georges Canguilhem
“One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law.” PeopleDoeCountryLawValuesChallengesAcceptingHappenedParticularEqualEuropeIslam Author:Mark Durie
“If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.” IfsProblemRealityStrongChanceAcceptingParticularAreasRootsDifficulty Author:Steve Pavlina
“When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.” PhilosophyEvilSpeakCommonCompassionAcceptingMoralParticularStandardsMercyExpectedPityAppealsUnfairMoral PhilosophyCommon Life Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)” KindHelpingEarthUsedGivenChanceRoomsPayAttitudeAcceptingLordMankindParticularGoodnessHighestPagesIdealsGladWelfareQuantitySermonsOur LordParablesAccepting LifeActs Of ServiceHalifax Author:Obert C. Tanner