“Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.” MenLittlesSelfAtheismConditionsEffectsCapableConsequenceFoundationBottomDenyPositive AtheismReasoningEvidentConvincing Author:Anthony Collins
“Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.” ThinkingMayMightLyingIndividualBeliefIssuesOur LivesConditionsBuildingGoldBasesBottomCreditArchitectureReviewsMetalsReservesCautionTokensVaultsIndividual LifeCredence Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.” GivingHeartCountryPleasureConditionsCitizensMy HeartHighestStandardsGive MeCrisisFellowsBottomCitizenshipGreatest Pleasures Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers
“Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.” MenTryingDoeFallGrowsMistakeStudyConditionsWalkingFindingsAll ThingsBottomEvery ManInstructionElsewhereCatchingDiscouragingPavementIncessantWrong Direction Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.” ConditionsGloryBottomRateExtremesContraryHeightSaviourIndignity Author:Robert Boyle
“I think Barack Obama had the right idea [on negotiations with enemies], and the bottom line is that of course there have to be conditions. But, of course it doesn't do us any good to not talk with our adversaries.” ThinkingIdeasCoursesLinesEnemyConditionsBottomBarackNegotiationBottom LineAdversariesRight Ideas Author:Hillary Clinton