Quotes of: Fundamental-principles Keyword

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Is Christianity Good for the World?

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.

Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

The Lifeboat

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

Letters to a Young Poet

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Lexicon

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mortals and Others 1: American Essays 1931-35

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Seeker After Truth

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluo...

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can...

Michael Behe

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

In the Midst of Death

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

Lily Cole

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas flo...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too com...

Paul Dirac

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

Pete du Pont

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

Sam Harris