Predication Quotes & Sayings

I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star. — Eleanor Catton

This science explains to us the meaning of terms, the nature of predication, and the law of consistency and contradiction; secondly, a thorough knowledge of the facts of nature relieves us of the burden of superstition, frees us from fear of death, and shields us against the disturbing effects of ignorance, which is often in itself a cause of terrifying apprehensions; — Epicurus

I stopped doubting her predication after she told me I'd be allergic to guava juice, which was something I'd never tried. I drank a liter of it in name of scientific research. Dad called me Big Face for two week. — Cath Crowley

It takes too much energy to hate. — Cory Booker

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base. — Simone Elkeles

Although, however, Hobbes's theory of Predication, according to the well-known remark of Leibnitz, and the avowal of Hobbes himself, 32 renders truth and falsity completely arbitrary, with no standard but the will of men, it must not be concluded that either Hobbes, or any of the other thinkers who have in the main agreed with him, did in fact consider the distinction between truth and error as less real, or attached less importance to it, than other people. — John Stuart Mill

To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you. — Elie Wiesel

for you to be with anyone else would be adultery of the soul. — Kennedy Ryan

Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips — Cassandra Clare

Believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything. — Russell Banks

We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information ... strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the ... inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through. — Judith Viorst

And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once. — Aristotle.

Paris is an insomniac's heaven. There is always something to photograph, something hidden in the shadows. One can see so much more in the darkness than in the light of day. — Francine Prose

Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed. The — Brandon Sanderson

Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more. — Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. — Melody Beattie

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased. — Shirley Chisholm

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. — Steven Spielberg

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do. — Bobby Schilling

The actual existence of the subject of the proposition is therefore only apparently, not really, implied in the predication, if an essential one: we may say, A ghost is a disembodied spirit, without believing in ghosts. But an accidental, or non-essential, affirmation, does imply the real existence of the subject, because in the case of a non-existent subject there is nothing for the proposition to assert. — John Stuart Mill