It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. . . this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.
Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.
If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. ' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue. . . it needs your indifference.
