Quotes About Attribute

The rational conception of God is that He is; nothing more. To give Him an attribute is to make Him a relative God.

We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same individual conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension; wherefore the idea of the mind and the mind itself are one and the same thing, which is conceived under one and the same attribute, namely, thought.

When scientists speak of diversity, they can mean any of three characteristics of a population. They can mean variation in some attribute, such as differences in the length of finches' beaks. They can mean diversity of types, such as different types of stores in a mall. Or they can mean differences in configuration, such as different connections between atoms in a molecule.

He felt that morale was "the most highly important of any military attribute." It could never be obtained through pampering the men or lowering the standards of discipline to permit easier living, but rather through self-respect, intensive training, and adequate leadership.

When you delete a property, you're not just deleting the value of the property, you're deleting the property itself. And, if you try to use fido.dogYears after deleting it, it will evaluate to undefined.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Most people react this way when I tell them about the Nazis. Would it be more or less comforting if we could attribute that particular part of our history to the supernatural?

Judgement of my humours is not always my strongest attribute.' 'You spoke your mind, I spoke mine. No more needs to be said.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

Perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who have it, appear angelic

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

Reason, according to Objectivism, is not merely a distinguishing attribute of man; it is his fundamental attribute-his basic means of survival. Therefore, whatever reason requires in order to function is a necessity of human life.

No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists.

justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists. . .

The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain.

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ's] supreme attribute.