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“It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.”

Easy Opinion Position Poet Speech Essence Chaos Advertising Capture Free Speech

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion”

Should Long Eye Term Opinion Practice Behavior Criticism Essence Investing Average Long Term Investors Eccentric Unconventional

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

World Light Found Opinion Youth Poet Essence Filled Faults Tales Plato Depraved

Book:The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...

Source: The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...

“We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Humans Would Be Water Born Chance Opinion Dying Human Nature Shadow Weak Essence Thoughtful Uncertain Vague Participation Clutch Midway

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.”

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.”

Men Problem My Own Opinion Mankind Men And Women Essence

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.”

Belief Fiction Known Opinion Fantasy Impossible Reader Circumstances Judgment Essence Regard Science Fiction Subjective

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium

“His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.”

Knows Jesus Opinion Essence

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.”

“Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.”

Ifs Belief Lost Opinion Essence Forgotten Absence Discussion Phrases Conception Shells Vivid

Author:John Stuart Mill

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

Thinking Mind Lying Purpose Opinion Essence Independent Skepticism Critical Thinking Overthinking Independent Thought Independent Thinking Thinking Mind Mind Thinking

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.”

May Moments Lying Consciousness Opinion Evidence Essence Outlook Abandonment Open Minded

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.”

Men Heart Kind Doe Enough Age Opinion He Man Essence Accomplish All Kinds Great Men Gossip Despise Public Opinion Falsity

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right

“The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.”