The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to r...
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forb...
What's a doctor, after all? A legitimized voyeur, a stranger whom we permit to poke fingers and even hands into places where we would not permit most people to insert so much as a finger-tip, who gazes on what we take most trouble to hide; a sitter-a...
In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in them...
Indiana Jones: [steals a flower for Elsa] Fraulein, will you permit me? Elsa: I usually don't. Indiana Jones: I usually don't either. Elsa: In that case I permit you. Indiana Jones: It would make me very happy. Elsa: But I am already sad, by tomorrow...
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
Without God all things are permitted.
Science does not permit exceptions.
Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.
Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.
Never complain about what you permit to be.
If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
