"Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Truth Quotes #Science Quotes #Judging Quotes

“In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.”
“In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.
“The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.”
“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”
“It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.”
“Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be resÂponÂsible.”
“Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.”
“We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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