Quotes About Justification

He does a work that must be done, and so he justifies his bread. Also, if he and the very few like him who are born to us teach us the love which is difficult, it cannot be said that they were born in vain." The love which is difficult …

There's a reason for killing everyone, if you know them well enough.

We are completely and irrevocably justified; we have been entirely forgiven, reconciled, redeemed. We will have eternal life with him, and everything we go through now is in some way tied to these truths.

Exist? idei care au oarece greutate doar dac? avem bunul-gust de a nu le aprofunda; de îndat? ce vrem s? intr?m în detalii, s? le explic?m, s? le justific?m, ele se n?ruie ÅŸi îÅŸi dezv?luie neantul.

He who is lucid, understands himself, explains himself, justifies himself, and masters his acts will never execute a memorable action. Psychology is the hero's tomb.

Istoria este o explica?ie, dar nu o scuz?.

Lumea nu este o justificare a lui Dumnezeu, istoria îns?, este una a omului.

To be a Raskolnikov — without the excuse of murder.

The only part of the planet where existence seemed to have some justification is tainted with gangrene.

The clear-sighted person who understands himself, explains himself, justifies himself, and dominates his action will never make a memorable gesture. Psychology is the hero's grave.

You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have

For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, "history originated as myth" and becomes a "social memory" to which men can appeal, "knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions." If

We must put aside all commonplaces as to the responsibility of the aggressor.… Success alone justifies war.

Where Brooke was embracing cleanness and nobleness, Mann saw a more positive goal. Germans being, he said, the most educated, law-abiding, peace-loving of all peoples, deserved to be the most powerful, to dominate, to establish a "German peace" out of "what is being called with every possible justification the German war.

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.

What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.

Players talk about pot odds all the time, especially when they try to justify a call that they made. Whenever I hear this line of reasoning, though, I can't help but wonder if they properly thought through the consequences of their call.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.