Fundamentals Quotes - Page 37

• The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Emotional, Analysis

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.33, SUNY Press

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• The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

  Paul David Tripp

  Problem, Sin, Reason

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• There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Expectations, Haunting

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• Warren Berger’s book is a cure for a disease in large enterprises. A More Beautiful Question provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important questions—which is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a great leader—while sharing inspiring stories to show the incredible power of this concept.

  Jim Stengel

  Beautiful, Book, Leader

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• Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

  Maimonides

  Men, Law, Evil

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1088, Moses Maimonides

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• That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Men, Doubt, Generations

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• The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

  David F. Wells

  Grace, Church, Today

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• Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Assumption, Debate, Theism

  Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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• We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

  J. William Fulbright

  Organization, Would Be, States

  "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1965.

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• A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hopeful, Improvement, Consciousness

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 1: "Growing Up Outside'", p. 17, 1990.

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• The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.

  Robert Fritz

  Choices, Way, Best Way

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• Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Relationship, People, Community

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• The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.

  Vannevar Bush

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  "Science - The Endless Frontier" by Vannevar Bush, United States, Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.

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• I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Philosophy, Believe, I Believe

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• When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Athlete, Having Fun, Looks

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• Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

  Edgar Morin

  Understanding, Humanity, Survival

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• You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

  Raymond Aubrac

  Decision, Luck, Three

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• Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

  Medard Boss

  Memories, Dwelling, Tradition

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• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, War, Political

  "Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present" by William John Thomas Mitchel, (p. viii), 2011.

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• Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

  Kofi Annan

  Water, Humanity, Survival

  "Is the World Running Out of Water?". Awake! magazine, June 22, 2001.

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• Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

  Norman Rockwell

  Thinking, America, Typical

  "Fodor's New England". Book by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194, 2008.

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• The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

  Josei Toda

  Buddhism, Goal, Realization

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• Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

  danah boyd

  Running, Water, Modern Life

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

  Zhou Yongkang

  Two, Development, Lines

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• Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country.

  Jiang Zemin

  Country, Long, Great Love

  "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.

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