Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve because and to the extent that it is provisional, hypothetical, when it looks for disconfirmation in the particular rather than final proof as a universal.
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.
. . . I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
The final solution for unemployment is work.
In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 ½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c. "