Presuppose Quotes

#1. We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

William O. Douglas

#2. Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Albert Camus

#4. The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Roger Spottiswoode

#5. Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.

Immanuel Kant

#6. There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Michel Foucault

#7. A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.

David Novak

#11. A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open or concealed.

Ronald Syme

#12. Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations ... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

Edgar Degas

#13. Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Walter Raleigh

#14. We carry in our incarnate being the alphabet & the grammar of life, but this does not presuppose an achieved meaning either in us or in it.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#15. The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose those categories are similarly defective.

Alan F. Chalmers

#16. Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Simon Schama

#17. All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Walter Raleigh

#18. Being hurt would presuppose that he cared about my opinion. And that was something you couldn't be taught, right?

Anonymous

#19. We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

John W. Campbell

#20. The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

Emanuel Lasker

#21. There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy.

Ryan Reynolds

#22. People will respond to higher standards quicker than low ones. Pure
Christian love dows not presuppose approval of all conduct.

Carly Fiorina

#23. From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#24. Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Peter Kreeft

#25. Keep poking things with your stick and it'll be okay.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

Edward Einhorn

#27. I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Anne Enright

#28. Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

Elsa Triolet

#29. Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.

Maya Banks

#30. Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

Horace Mann

#31. There's even a name for the people who have the most stuff. They're called hoarders. Back in the day they were just called grandmothers.

Ellen DeGeneres

#32. If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.

Joseph Cook

#33. Who didn't exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#34. No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!

Mac Miller

#35. I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

Larenz Tate

#36. I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

Nikki Giovanni

#37. A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?

Lailah Gifty Akita