#logic

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assessment #associated #derive #enterprises #extremists

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. ↗

— George H. Mead

#experience #individual #phases #psychological #psychology

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#accidents #biological #fathers #necessities #social

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gave #life #man #me #most

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#fiction #future #get #kind #logical

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#because #biologically #carrying #child #difficult

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence