Positing Quotes

#1. If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. Saint Thomas declared that woman was an "inessential" being, which, from a masculine point of view, is a way of positing the accidental character of sexuality.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. And besides, positing universe as program didn't seem to answer the Big Questions so much as kick them down the road another order of magnitude.

Peter Watts

#4. The centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Mark Fisher

#5. Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#6. If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.

Asma Barlas

#8. The energic value of a cause is never abolished by positing an arbitrary and rational goal: that is always a makeshift.

C. G. Jung

#9. Jamie. God, I want you." His hands were already parting Jamie's thighs and stroking them impatiently. He wanted - needed - to put himself inside him, the urgency of that need threatening to swallow him up. "Okay,

Alessandra Hazard

#10. Give your idea a chance. You'll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don't swing.

Richie Norton

#11. When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

Jake T. Austin

#13. I have been very miserable since - miserable not for an hour but for months on end - but I can still feel that hour's misery in its perfect desolation, if I am fool enough to call it up in my mind.

Robertson Davies

#14. Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

James Stockdale

#15. When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended." In

Michael Lewis

#16. They want you to express the way you FEEL ,but to be fair
In the moment that you'll be real, they will not even care

BT

#17. A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

Janette Oke

#18. Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

Raymond Blanc

#19. Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.

Lauren Hammond

#20. At five of five, I called the airline number - 800-FUCK-YOU - and was told I had to speak directly to lost luggage at the Sacramento Airport. No one answered in Sacramento, though my call was important to them.

Karen Joy Fowler

#21. All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

William Hurt