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One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. John Fiske
Ruins Everywhere Crumbling Orthodox Creeds
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those. John Frame
God Conservative Liberty Holding Christian Liberal Our Rule Worship Those Must More Both Students Most Commands Than Scripture Who Apply Defending
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. John Frame
Conservative Result Sometimes Few Way Worship Churches Guilty Has-Been Puritan Remains Leads Although Been Discrepancy Them Theology Standard Presbyterian Among Actually Orthodoxy
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. John Locke
Easier Command Than Teach Tutor
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. John Locke
Dreams Reflection Mind Understanding Our Ideas Without Reverie Regard Float
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. John Locke
Half Spent More Lifetime Tragic Than Trying Moment Express
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke
Truth Dreams Knowledge Argument Nothing Dream Where Use Reasoning
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. John Searle
Car Understanding Nothing Analogy Other Adding Machines Attribute Metaphor Proved Often Cognitive
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. John Searle
Natural Tools Our Philosophical Find Examples Purposes Take Make Metaphorical Ice Them Cut Extensions
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. John Searle
Car Will Sense Nothing Adding Machine Exactly Computer Argue Namely Understand Understands Literal Programmed
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. John Searle
Active Think Liberal Berkeley General Feature Student Student Body Had Intellectually Quite Places Body Who Element
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill
Justice Injustice Fight Battle Long Other Willing Must Terminated Affairs Human Human Beings Ascendancy Against Mankind Beings Ever Need
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. John Stuart Mill
Happiness Pain Pleasure Promote Absence Tend Proportion Wrong Reverse Intended Produce Actions Right
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. John Stuart Mill
Life Experience Those Risked Never Protected Sheltered Flavor Certain Who Fought
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. John Stuart Mill
Men Few Distinguishes Majority According Inability Act Beliefs
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill
Happiness Possible Unquestionably Without Done Mankind
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. John Stuart Mill
War Good Charity Matter Complete Immediate Apt General General Good Directly Concerned Another Ultimate Effect Which Persons Consequence
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. John Stuart Mill
Men Earning Excluded Well Imprisoned Bread Might Means
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. John Stuart Mill
Power Organ Only Tendencies Instincts Name Masses Make Governments While Themselves Deserving
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox. Jonathan Bennett
Somebody Like Talk Five-Year-Old Anybody Sandbox Turn Then
My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool. Jonathan Bennett
School Three First High High School Years Cool
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love Nature Love Is Else Out Vitality Someone Splendid Toward Supreme Himself Affords Going Human Anyone Which Activity
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Understand Surprised Wonder Begin
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Time Man Creation Live He Know Himself Does Capable Create Believes
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life Man Political Hero Will Poet Master Torrent Unruly Learned Learned Man His Order Fortress Meditate
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Needs Age Youth Living Only Does Require Reasons
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