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Death and the dice level all distinctions.


Samuel Foote


#dice #distinctions #level

The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy


Gregory B. Sadler


#christian-philosophy #distinctions #intellectual-life #philosophy #religion

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.


W. H. Auden


#age #apt #class #class distinctions #democratic

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.


John Polkinghorne


#assimilate #concepts #cosmology #creation #different

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.


Thomas Reid


#corrected #distinction #distinctions #doubt #entitled

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.


Iris Chang


#class #class distinctions #country #course #distinctions

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.


Thomas Aquinas


#drawn #equivalent #mind #necessarily #reality

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.


Pierre de Coubertin


#play #racial #role #should

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#distinctions #marry #may #social #themselves

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.


Alfred Marshall


#chief #degree #differences #distinctions #economic






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