The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours. "
Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.
Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
This is a new day. Begin anew to claim and create all that is good
Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.
. . . man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified. . . Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.
I don't claim to have found the Truth, but I know it has found me.
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.