The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Quotes about presupposes (16 Quotes)
He who is the servant of a divine Name is the shadow of that Name, his soul is its epiphanic form (mazhar). But in recognizing that this is so the servant does not negate his own existence. There is indeed a hadith concerning the servant who never ceases to move closer to his Lord his Lord says of him 'I am his hearing by which he hears, his eyesight by which he sees... ' This servant does not become what he was not what happens is that the 'luminous shadow' becomes increasingly transparent. Moreover, the possessive adjective 'his' refers explicitly to the reality of the servant or rather presupposes it.
The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
Ibn Arabi was above all the disciple of Khidr an invisible master... such a relationship with a hidden spiritual master lends the disciple an essentially 'transhistorical' dimension and presupposes an ability to experience events which are enacted in a reality other than the physical reality of daily life, events which spontaneously transmute themselves into symbols.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.