Quotes About Primacy

La fuerza y la originalidad con que el fundador del Opus Dei afirma este primado en el orden sobrenatural, es quizá solo comparable a la fuerza y originalidad con que santo Tomás de Aquino había afirmado este primado en el orden natural»[5]

I came to understand later that the requirement to extirpate anger in the Buddhist and Stoic cases has to do with the primacy of ethics in both philosophies. The aim of ethics is to do good, to reduce pain and suffering (dukkha), and, if possible, to bring happiness in its stead. Anger, at least in one standard mode, aims to hurt, to do harm, to inflict suffering. And one should never aim to do that.

perhaps the most objective knowledge we have is of the primacy of pleasure—the absence of pain—as the motivating force behind our own and others' actions.

Dialogue is never an end in itself but a means to develop a better comprehension about the object of knowledge. Otherwise, one could end up with dialogue as conversation where individual lived experiences are given primacy.

assert the primacy of thought over ritual

The primacy of cognition over affect was a cornerstone of the theoretical framework that organized the work of early cognitive behavioral therapists