Constitutive Quotes

#1. The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom. - Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being. - Author: Martin Heidegger

#3. [T]he biblical creation story, like the creation stories of other cultures, communicates social and religious values and presents them as if they were universally valid. - Author: Elaine Pagels

#4. It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily. - Author: Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. Loneliness is not, therefore, a quality inhering in an otherwise complete person. Rather it is so essential to our makeup that, viewed from a certain perspective, it can be seen to be the very constitutive element of our personality.17 - Author: Ronald Rolheiser

#6. while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."

-- Making Magic, p. 13 - Author: Randall Styers

#7. In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge. - Author: Theodor Adorno

#8. To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity. - Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians. - Author: Stanley Hauerwas

#10. The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing. - Author: Ramakrishna

#11. For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself. - Author: Bernard Lonergan

#12. Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development. - Author: Amartya Sen

#13. Given AC as a rival to naturalism, there is an additional burden of proof for a naturalist ontology that quantifies over sui generis emergent properties such as those constitutive of consciousness. After - Author: William Lane Craig

#14. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive. - Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. Language is the key to the heart of people. - Author: Ahmed Deedat

#16. Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#17. What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made. - Author: Michel Foucault

#18. When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today. - Author: Indra Nooyi

#19. Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. - Author: Michel Foucault

#20. Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus. - Author: Stanley Hauerwas

#21. To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university. - Author: Susan Sarandon

#22. For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. - Author: Cornel West

#23. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. - Author: Hugh Laurie