Quotes About Inherent

Relativism does entail nihilism: if standards are inherently and inescapably expressions of something called culture, and can be nothing else, then no culture can be subjected to a standard, because (ex hypothesi) there cannot be a trans-cultural standard which would stand in judgement over it. No argument could be simpler or more conclusive.

If we are inherently spiritual creatures, we are by our nature creative beings, yet we live in the fear that if we aspire to be more we will discover ourselves to be less.

On Liberty, 'that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

To lean into this aspiration, you must confront the fact that "whiteness" is a social ego as void of inherent identity as the personal ego, and you have identified with it as much as your very own name, but without being willing to name it.

The long-drawn, wavering howl has, for all its fearful resonance, some inherent sadness in it, as if the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how and never cease to mourn their own condition.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

It does not occur to him that it is necessary to account for the existence of an infinite personality. He is perfectly certain that there can be no design without a designer, and he is equally certain that there can be a designer who was not designed.

Method is not (as we often think) subservient to goal but rather contains the goal within itself.

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

Let's just say I hope the soul is inherent in the complexity of the infinitely grand workings of the human brain. And that no matter where the mind is housed, the soul will follow.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

A DANGEROUS COMBINATION As the epigraph to this chapter indicates, most people don't know whether they are engaging in inherent- or created-risk activities. Couple this with people's failure to distinguish between the two types of loss-producing events, continuous and discrete, introduced at the end of the last chapter, and you have a disaster waiting to happen.

Things need to be worth doing for themselves, not just for practice for some future time.

To adventure into the figurative meanings of his words was where the inherent danger resided.

Elle était inhérente à sa présence à lui dans ma vie, qu'il avait transformée en un étrange et continuel palimpseste.

Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.

The fighter is born. He cannot be made.

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.