Quotes About Alternatives

Hence the alteratives are those agents that promote metabolism. In folk medicine these were traditionally called "blood purifiers" because a poorly burning metabolism often causes toxins that work their way to the surface to cause skin lesions

Let's choose all over nothing

Dü?ünmenin alternatifi duygular de?il, dü?ünmemektir.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

As another example, in many healthcare settings, up to 35 percent of nurses are the parents of school-age children, and up to 20 percent of those would have to stay home with their children because they have no childcare alternatives. So, closing schools can have the effect of losing 20 percent of our vital nursing workforce in a time of medical crisis, before we even consider those that we will lose to illness itself.

3. Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present time.

Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

The judge can no longer accuse, but only says what he thinks is good for the individual, after considering all the alternatives.

The wise person must always consider and reconsider all the alternatives before jumping to the final conclusion. Furthermore, the objective views are the results of our philosophical ideologies (philideos) and the definition of our terms.

The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to left or to the right on some hypothetical spectrum, and every political question can be answered in terms of 'for' or 'against' – this trivialized world of thought cannot cope with the complexities of real life either in the first or the twenty-first century.

It's very confusing choosing between different systems. So I'd like to begin by looking at some of the factors you should consider to help you make the right choice.

Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

En un cosmos inconcebiblemente complejo, cada vez que una criatura se enfrentaba con diversas alternativas, no elegía una sino todas, creando de este modo muchas historias universales del cosmos. Ya que en ese mundo había muchas criaturas y que cada una de ellas estaba continuamente ante muchas alternativas, las combinaciones de esos procesos eran innumerables, y a cada instante ese universo se ramificaba infinitamente en otros universos, y éstos, en otros a su vez.

Of course, I intended to die without telling a soul about my illness. Without anyone knowing, I would secretly deteriorate. Actually, I felt that there was nothing else I could do. I had no alternatives. Shouldn't I be resolved to die as a peasant in my horribly confused final circumstance? I had no excuses. It was not because life suddenly became precious, but the forced pretense until yesterday had disappeared.

Mentalizing virtuously means being authentically interested and curious in exploring the richness of possible realities. Active questioning expresses curiosity, but should not be expected to yield an unequivocal answer, but progress towards a conceptualization of alternatives (Skårderud and Fonagy 2012

Avoid the words "all" or "never." Instead of thinking everything is "this way or that way," come up with three more alternatives.

And while I could not always suppress the violent thoughts that raged inside me, I would nevertheless dedicate my life to seeking alternatives to physical violence, and would wrestle continually with the problem of transforming psychicviolence into creative energy