Quotes of: Notion Keyword

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

The God Delusion

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Golem in the Gears

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, ...

Kate Bernheimer

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

All the Pretty Horses

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Armageddon in Retrospect

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Northanger Abbey

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Let the Great World Spin

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Patches Of Grey

It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.

Prince: A Pop Life

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

Real Christianity

In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a , an impersonal perfection from which beings including man are separated only by delusion.

Taoism

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Nicolas Roeg

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.

Paul Bloom

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Richard Ben-Veniste

One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.

Rudy Giuliani