Normativity Quotes

#1. Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons.

Derek Parfit

#2. Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

Stephen Young

#3. Fourth, Jesus himself reinforces the normativity of the Genesis account.

Kevin DeYoung

#4. I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.

Natalie Portman

#5. The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

#6. A kiss is one of the few futuristic events that comes to my present everyday..

Jai Prakash

#7. Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

Moliere

#8. Candace nodded a little too hard. She loved making her ponytail swing.

Lisi Harrison

#9. The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day.

James Baldwin

#10. Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

John Wilmot

#11. I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.

Maggie Nelson

#12. I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

Zoe Sugg

#13. 13 For you e formed my inward parts; you f knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. [1] g Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Anonymous

#14. When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

Daniel Johns

#15. Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

#16. Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#17. Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

Evan Thompson

#18. If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

George Harrison