Non Foundationalism Quotes & Sayings

The most noble
cause known to man
is the liberation
of the human mind
and spirit. — Maya Angelou

Clearly, we have entered a world very different from the world of modernity as previously described. The subject/object distinction has broken down. In this world, foundationalism is a washout;49 the old distinction between fact and opinion is disappearing from view. The quest for certainty, precision, and ahistorical knowledge of objective truth is judged impossible. "Truth" is not an objective entity; the classic dikes between fact and opinion are springing leaks. Of course, not all the tenets of modernity have been sacrificed. Irrationally, philosophical naturalism (for most advocates of this radical hermeneutics), still holds sway; moreover, I must still say something about the place of science in this new model. But some variation of what once held the status of a minority report advanced only by a few intellectuals is now adopted almost everywhere. — D. A. Carson

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does. — Byron Katie

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion. — Edmund Burke

God doesn't require perfection, he requires progression. — Stephan Labossiere

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me. — Christine Baranski

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist. — Paul Arden

Let me end by summarizing some advantages of exemplarism. Exemplarist virtue theory has the theoretical simplicity and power of foundationalism without the problems of a conceptual foundation. — Anonymous

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse — Al Pacino

If you are not on your path of purpose, you will only have misery in your life. — Bryant McGill

For theologians groaning under the oppression of demands to justify their discipline before the bar of what is supposed to be universally valid scientific method the appeal of non-foundationalism is immense. It liberates a celebration of the rights of particularity. It enables the theologian to say that theological method must be different from other methods because it shapes its approach from the distinctive content with which it has to do - just as, indeed, other disciplines shape their approaches in the light of their distinctive content. Non-foundationalism, that is to say, is a way of advocating the autonomy of distinct intellectual disciplines. — Colin E. Gunton

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are. — Amy Lee

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. — Jorge Luis Borges

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature. — Kimon Nicolaides