- Nov 07, 2020
Abhors Quotes
On strong reactions dressed up as plain fact.
Several of these lines lean on the same idea from different angles — that minds, like nature, "abhor" gaps: discrepancies, unexplained phenomena, a vacuum of explanation. One older text uses the word in a heavier, more legal sense about forced belief. Browse Book for more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.
- Nov 07, 2020
Politics abhors a vacuum.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature abhors annihilation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy abhors a vacuum.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
- Nov 07, 2020