Posit Quotes

#1. Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

Bill Maher

#2. One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

Edsger Dijkstra

#4. I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might as well have been me to first propose this idea, just now.

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#5. The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

David Adjaye

#6. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.

Shlomo Sand

#7. writers to explicitly posit that the Joker embraces the chaos of insanity and death, while the Batman instead channels his pain into an endless crusade to impose order.

Glen Weldon

#8. The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.

University Of Navarra

#9. One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified.
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age; but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.

Mark C. Carnes

#11. There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

Thomas Aquinas

#13. The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Shermer

#14. To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

Dennis Prager

#15. A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

Jacques Lacan

#16. It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness);

Aristotle.

#17. There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You'll regret it if you don't.

Jerry A. Fodor

#18. Embrace the sacredness of a new day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. You can conquer fear with faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things

Malcolm Gladwell

#21. Don't run away from the challenges. You can graciously overcome every challenge. Be strong!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Jules was a proud little toy. She decided that she was going to work very hard to be the best wolf she could be.

Julie B. Campbell

#23. A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most
grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.

Brian Herbert

#24. My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

Peter Agre

#25. Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

Eric Abetz

#26. Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Lydia Sigourney

#27. You might be a redneck if you use a radiator hose to fix your kitchen sink.

Jeff Foxworthy

#28. Live for something or die for nothing

Steve