Posited Quotes

#1. Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

William Of Ockham

#2. Boys," Lindsay agreed, nodding. "What doesn't get lost in translation?"
"Things with the letter X in front of them," Rachel posited. "Like X-Box. And X-rated movies.

Nenia Campbell

#3. Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

William Of Ockham

#4. For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

William Of Ockham

#5. Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.

Marianne Williamson

#6. Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

William James

#7. Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

Rachel Cusk

#8. Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. In this way Byron's take on the human condition becomes closer to the fractured collage of 20th century existentialists: a conflicted human nature posited within a harsh and painful environment where self-less compassion is essential to human progress, but is rewarded with torture and suffering.

George Gordon Byron

#10. The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education.

Peter Wollen

#11. The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

Immanuel Kant

#12. One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Isabella Rossellini

#13. Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

William Of Occam

#14. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#15. What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Edmund Husserl

#16. The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

T.C. Boyle

#17. The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

Ann Druyan

#18. I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

Julie Burchill

#19. Nobody would dare do that.

Lee Child

#20. Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.

Michael Moss

#21. I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Betty Smith

#22. There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Brene Brown

#23. If you give a boy a lake and a log he will very rapidly invent the ship.

Patrick Brophy

#24. I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

Gene Luen Yang

#25. I love doing the show more than anything. It's truly the most satisfying thing creatively that I've ever had in my life.

Tom Scharpling

#26. The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Benjamin Tucker

#27. You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

Kathy Freston