#prescribe

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cannot #enables #get #ideas #our

It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#energies #just #people #prescribe #two

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#added #complex #complex system #confucianism #court

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#black #black and white #choices #choose #freedom

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. ↗

— Andre Norton

#because #behavior #cats #creative #creative people

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#cannot #completely #humility #minds #must

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#answers #being #condition #dialogue #fighting

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#democracy #especially #goal #great #less

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#course #heap #his #leader #lets

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. ↗

— William S. Paley

#ends #god #his #limits #out