There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i. e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
Agency presupposes choice.
Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter
This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.
Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.