Ernest Sosa Quotes

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

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• Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Tradition
  • Stronger
  • Indians

• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Politics
  • Agreement
  • Pulpit

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tradition
  • Guide
  • Jailer

• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Feet
  • Tradition
  • Stand

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Vision
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Different
  • Country
  • Religion

• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Story

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religious
  • Doing
  • Criticism

• Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Art
  • History
  • Tradition

• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Long
  • Die
  • Religious

• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Death
  • Speak
  • Tradition

• The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Tradition
  • Objective
  • Ignoramuses

• By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

  

  Shigeru Yoshida
  • World
  • Development
  • Trade

• When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.

  

  Walter E. Williams
  • People
  • Reason
  • Written

• There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

  

  Mustafa Akyol
  • Tradition
  • Responsible
  • Islam

• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Kind

• If she was in a teaching mood she wasn't in a hitting mood. Like sneezing and keeping your eyes open, Mrs. H couldn't do both at once.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mood
  • Teaching
  • Hitting

• Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Tradition
  • Agreement
  • Features