Quotes About Posit

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit. Thus, we have to think, and plan, and limit, and posit, in order to live at all. How then to envision the future, and establish our direction, without falling prey to the temptation of totalitarian certainty?

Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age; but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.