“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.” ThinkingWorldKindDoeMadeCertainIndividualViewsResponsibilityKnownFateImpossibleDependsEthicsConscienceEssenceExcusePoint Of ViewEthicalSense Of Responsibility Author:Gyorgy Lukacs
“We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.” TodayEnergyKnownSourceDependsFindingsSurvivalOilDecadesAlternativesImports Author:Barack Obama
“For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.” IfsHumansArtKnownRiskDependsGeniusMathematicsPhysicsManifestationVocationFrustratingExtinctionMundaneSublimity Author:Charles Krauthammer
“A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.” KnowsMenLittlesCharacterKnownDogHe ManDependsDignitySmellCharacteristicsCoatsTailors Book:Modern Painters Source: Modern Painters
“Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.” KnownDependsResourcesProbabilityBettingWagers Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.” WorldHumansWellsKnownEconomicThis WorldDependsMoralityEconomicsImpactFactorsWell BeingPhenomenonSociologyGeneticsScientific TruthNeurobiology Author:Sam Harris
“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.” IfsWorldWarPurposeWishEffortKnownDoubtSubjectsWillingDependsMajorityAggressionWorld HistoryAgainst War Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.” MenScienceTurnsBeliefNaturalLevelsQualityKnownColdDependsResearchDiscoveryScientistPassionateHandleEnterpriseAbandonedImaginativePromotionMisleadUndertakingsEndeavourScientific ResearchEnquiryLaymanDispassionate Author:Peter Medawar
“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.” ThinkingMayLittlesLongTwoWarSometimesBodyMovingGamesDifferencesNumbersCompanyKnownPositionDependsPleaseStrongerChessDivisionRelativeTroopsEquipmentKnightsPawns Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.” LawNaturalKnownOpinionFieldsDependsDataNatural Law Book:Handbook for Preclears Source: Handbook for Preclears
“Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.” PeopleMadeBigsRaceKnownLordDependsBreathsHatsPlusBreedingTexanAnthropologistsPropagation Author:J. Frank Dobie
“Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.” FirstsWellsKnownProgressArmsDependsOfficeRegardFellowsOccasionsPresidentialAddressesPredictionsWell KnownOathAppearingCountrymenHope For The FutureInaugural Address Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.” MenBodySoundKnownTrustDependsExerciseYour BodyFavorsJudgementMusclesTrustworthyTrustworthinessTrust WorthyGood JudgementDaily ExerciseSound Judgement Author:Grantland Rice
“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.” KnownCenturyDependsAngelDancingPhilosopherCheeksPins Book:Jitterbug Perfume Source: Jitterbug Perfume