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Image of Paul Kurtz
Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.
- Paul Kurtz
Collection: Independent
Image of Georg Cantor
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.
- Georg Cantor
Collection: Independent
Image of Catherine Ponder
The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire
- Catherine Ponder
Collection: Independent
Image of Warren Christopher
An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.
- Warren Christopher
Collection: Independent
Image of Jose Antonio Vargas
Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.
- Jose Antonio Vargas
Collection: Independent
Image of Emanuel Lasker
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.
- Emanuel Lasker
Collection: Independent
Image of Joe Lieberman
I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.
- Joe Lieberman
Collection: Independent
Image of Joel Henry Hildebrand
We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.
- Joel Henry Hildebrand
Collection: Independent
Image of William John Macquorn Rankine
It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory.
- William John Macquorn Rankine
Collection: Independent
Image of Siobhan Davies
Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
- Siobhan Davies
Collection: Independent
Image of William Borah
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
- William Borah
Collection: Independent
Image of Karl Pearson
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
- Karl Pearson
Collection: Independent
Image of Dorothee Solle
For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.
- Dorothee Solle
Collection: Independent
Image of Baron d'Holbach
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?
- Baron d'Holbach
Collection: Independent
Image of Eric Williams
You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.
- Eric Williams
Collection: Independent
Image of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.
- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Collection: Independent
Image of Franz Joseph Gall
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.
- Franz Joseph Gall
Collection: Independent
Image of John A. Macdonald
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.
- John A. Macdonald
Collection: Independent
Image of Carol P. Christ
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
- Carol P. Christ
Collection: Independent
Image of Isabella Rossellini
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.
- Isabella Rossellini
Collection: Independent
Image of Isabel Briggs Myers
The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.
- Isabel Briggs Myers
Collection: Independent
Image of Mitchell Baker
The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
- Mitchell Baker
Collection: Independent
Image of Gustave Le Bon
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.
- Gustave Le Bon
Collection: Independent
Image of Errol Barrow
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.
- Errol Barrow
Collection: Independent
Image of George C. Scott
We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.
- George C. Scott
Collection: Independent
Image of Leslie White
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.
- Leslie White
Collection: Independent
Image of Joseph Dalton Hooker
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
Collection: Independent
Image of Cassius Jackson Keyser
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.
- Cassius Jackson Keyser
Collection: Independent
Image of Vincent Bugliosi
If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!
- Vincent Bugliosi
Collection: Independent
Image of Pope Pius XII
God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.
- Pope Pius XII
Collection: Independent
Image of Jonathan Rauch
Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.
- Jonathan Rauch
Collection: Independent
Image of Kazimir Malevich
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.
- Kazimir Malevich
Collection: Independent
Image of Brian Johnson
Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.
- Brian Johnson
Collection: Independent
Image of Lil Boosie
Here was just not a lot that we could do as an Independent. We could barely make $100,000. It was nothing' else livin' on the independent scene, and I think we needed to get on the TV and be seen. We need to work really hard this time.
- Lil Boosie
Collection: Independent
Image of Anne Heche
It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.
- Anne Heche
Collection: Independent
Image of Heinrich Hertz
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
- Heinrich Hertz
Collection: Independent
Image of George H. W. Bush
We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.
- George H. W. Bush
Collection: Independent
Image of Chin-Ning Chu
Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.
- Chin-Ning Chu
Collection: Independent
Image of Orrin Hatch
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.
- Orrin Hatch
Collection: Independent
Image of Hermann Minkowski
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
- Hermann Minkowski
Collection: Independent
Image of Bernard d'Espagnat
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.
- Bernard d'Espagnat
Collection: Independent
Image of Chester Bowles
And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?
- Chester Bowles
Collection: Independent
Image of Ayya Khema
A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.
- Ayya Khema
Collection: Independent
Image of Adam Sedgwick
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
- Adam Sedgwick
Collection: Independent
Image of Bennett Cerf
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
- Bennett Cerf
Collection: Independent
Image of Forest Whitaker
It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.
- Forest Whitaker
Collection: Independent
Image of Sherilyn Fenn
In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique
- Sherilyn Fenn
Collection: Independent
Image of Gish Jen
It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).
- Gish Jen
Collection: Independent
Image of Lincoln Kirstein
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
- Lincoln Kirstein
Collection: Independent