No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense. . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.
Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe in government of the people by the people and for the people, then you believe in fair play. So when you tax women, give them the vote as well.
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.
The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [. . . ] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files. Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness. . . and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.
