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as such
«The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.»
Author: Felix Adler
| About:
Ethics,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
affirmation, as such, hideous, morally, outcry, per se, Philosophy of, respected, revered, violated
«The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.»
Author: Paul de Man
| Keywords:
ambivalence, as such, coincide, coincides, denies, interpretive, such that
«Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such /as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association /the going will be hard indeed.»
«The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Advertising,
Doubt
| Keywords:
as such, precept
«Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
as such, does not exist, social function, vacuum
«Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such - the judgment of death»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
as such, reference, references, reference to, seemingly, with reference to
«Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
as such, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, eternal, fullest, requires, The Eternal
«That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such- be it so; but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t»
«My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
as such, firmly, gangster, gangsters, host, institute, instituted, Pasteur, relatively, smallpox, smallpox virus, sneer, sneering, stable, symbiosis, that is to say, The Other Half, viruses
