Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.
Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
The new discovery of a 3. 3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
. . . you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.
Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.
When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.