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“Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.”

People Way Black Talking Music Records Our Lives Bases Philosophical Historical Decades Passing Passings Black People Continuity Way Of Talking Passing It

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.”

Mind Religious Buddhism Bases Philosophical Buddhist Cosmology Assimilation Revision Interpreting Mind Changing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”

Firsts Virtue Bases Philosophical Endeavor

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.”

Book Found Sound President Fire Thousand Essence Bases Philosophical Drinking Casts Flames Heat Prophet Nonsense Tunes Symphony Assassins Interpreter Dens Anton Gorodetsky

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.”

Knows Doe Science Wealth Animal Views Common Democracy Evolution Lows Bases Philosophical Point Of View Kingdoms Former Vegetables Highs And Lows Puzzling Animal Kingdom

Book:Letters of Asa Gray

Source: Letters of Asa Gray

“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

Law Opinion Argument Abuse Bases Philosophical

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”

May Real Government Fall Causes Plans Ideals Bases Philosophical Stupidity Be Good Planning Cures Abstract Enterprise Versus Real Questions Private Enterprise Quicksand

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.”

Form Belief Term Evidence Opposites Bases Philosophical Libertarian Certainty Logical Willingness Yield Accompany Rationalism Dogmatic Deductions Empiricism Empirical Evidence

Author:John Quiggin

“The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.”

Ifs Whole Truth Bases Philosophical Mathematics Witty Math Tricks Mathematical Collapse Speculation Departure Calculus Rigour Integral Calculus

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg