“Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.” PossibilityClaimsInfiniteRealmsMathematicianDisputesActuality Book:Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals) Source: Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)
“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.” WellsPersonsSelfPoliticalDesireStagePossibilityPositionFoolSceneAmbitionClaimsMadnessPraiseCriticsDefinitionsFollyCriticizeLicenseRivalsRivalryReprisalErasmus Author:J. M. Coetzee
“The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.” JusticePossibilityDependsClaimsInstitutionsReformObedienceFormal Book:A Theory of Justice Source: A Theory of Justice
“A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.” LightLife IsAliveGenerationsPossibilityFitClaimsDarePhenomenonSpheresCosmicSpontaneousLikelihoodOrigin Of Life Author:Donald C. Peattie
“I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.” WantHas BeensMadeCountryFactsSeemsTakenRiskPossibilityClaimsRegardFlightOur CountryPrestigeGreat Risk Author:John F. Kennedy
“It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.” IfsThinkingMenWorldRealitySufferingPleasureWonderPrinciplesInfluencePossibilityChangedTasksClaimsPressureBackgroundsUnhappinessModestSurvivedAvoidingAccustomedModeratesObtaining Author:Sigmund Freud
“We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.” PeopleWayGivingBodyDesireSexPracticePossibilityGiving UpClaimsProfoundNervousDistinctiveArticulating Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.” PeopleHeartEarthAmericaJoyHateNationsPowerfulViolenceRiskFeetEconomicPossibilityReadyPrideBecomingCitizensLogicMachinesClaimsPlantFlyingBombsNecksPatriotismIronMost PowerfulHelplessBloodshedDynamiteFlying Machines Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman
“We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?” KnowsPlayHappensLawScienceUniverseNamesProcessChancePoorNumbersKnowledgePossibilityClaimsMethodErrorsThings HappenTrialsMathematicalBiologyFabricEntitledProbabilityLarge NumbersExclusionTrial And Error Author:Albert Claude