- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ascribe Quotes
Quotes on meaning, belief, and reasoning
One of the more memorable ascribe quotes here comes from someone who stopped ascribing much significance to material things after a brush with death, choosing simple, grounded Being.
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- Incompetence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
- Caste
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is true across every single society; we project grossness onto a racial or gender subgroup or caste. A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
- Particular
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020