Quotes About Critical

The most critical need of the Church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made. —A. W. Tozer

The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

When the history of the earth enters a very critical period, as at present, the myths, gods and demons that direct us, the Archetypes, come to take an even more active part, becoming almost visible to many. They participate directly in the combat, as happened in the last world war, of cosmic resonance.... When the mythic slain SS were not destroying men, they were their immortal Gods in combat against other Entities, or Daemons. They were symbols against symbols.

After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from the canvas to see whether the composition works, the poet rereads the verse with a more critical eye, the scientist sits down to do the calculations or run the experiments. Most lovely insights never go any farther, because under the cold light of reason fatal flaws appear. But if everything checks out, the slow and often routine work of elaboration begins

accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately

To himself, Ponzi rationalized the difference between his Securities Exchange Company and copycat upstarts: "Perhaps my activities were not entirely within the law," he allowed. "But my intent was honest. I was in a critical position and I had fallen into it without any intention to do wrong. Now that I was in it, I was trying my hardest to pull myself out of it, without hurting my investors.

Many remarkable advances in knowledge have resulted from our questioning the truth of propositions which we previously regarded as "self-evident." And a critical study of human beliefs reveals how much "interpretation" is present in what at first sight seems like "immediate knowledge.

Broadly conceived, however, ecology deals with the balance of nature. Inasmuch as nature includes man, the science basically deals with the harmonization of nature and man. This focus has explosive implications. The explosive implications of an ecological approach arise not only from the fact that ecology is intrinsically a critical science--in fact, critical on a scale that the most radical systems of political economy failed to attain--but it is also an integrative and reconstructive science.

The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a cultivated ignorance and a nearly total loss of critical insight.

To understand the philosophical ideologies of Karl Marx, you have to read between the lines.

A Christian approach to any field needs to be both critical and constructive. We cannot simply borrow from the results of secular scholarship as though that were spiritually neutral territory discovered by people whose minds are completely open and objective- that is, *as though the fall had never happened*.

diversity can result in a more rigorous intellectual outcome by fostering critical interrogations that reveal embedded social prejudice.

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. It does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment.

The most effective selling strategy during this phase is to uncover dissatisfaction in the account and to develop that dissatisfaction until it reaches the critical mass.

anti-intellectual

Weber insists that the value of science is always to be questioned and not simply presupposed... He is... critical of the presupposition which underlies Strauss' position, namely that scientific reason is necessarily of value.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a God. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becoming, the more destructive they're becoming. But I think as an artist, particularly, it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.