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Letter "P" » postulates
«It makes no more sense to postulate a special brain-soul in order to account for the activities of the brain than to postulate a special stomach-soul in order to explain the functioning of the stomach or a special lung-soul to explain the phenomenon»
«The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Progress
| Keywords:
individual liberty, postulate, postulates
«A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
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«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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«I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
divinity, divinity of Christ, postulate, postulates, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing
«The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy.»
«Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
disorder, postulate, postulates, simulate, simulated, simulating
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