Sentences with phrase «for dicta»

The early ethnologist R. R. Marett is noted for his dictum that «religion is not so much thought out as danced out.»

Oscar Wilde is celebrated for his dictum that «bad art is always sincere,» but....

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I've covered one or two before, such as WayUp founder Liz Wessel's dictum that young people should always default to «yes,» but if you're in the market for this sort of bite - sized but actionable advice, a recent Psychology Today piece from UConn professor and author Gina Barreca is the real mother lode.

A professor of economics who worked for many years on Wall Street, where you don't succeed if you don't grasp Marx's dictum that capitalism is about exploitation.

Oaktree also believes in this dictum of investing in troubled assets and selling them for a profit once they recover.

The wife submits to her husband, as in the first part of Paul's dictum in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his Church (which might have been what Paul had in mind in the first place).

William McChesney Martin's famous dictum that it is the job of central bankers «to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going» is an early recognition of the need for monetary policy to be forward looking — and perhaps a reminder that acting in a timely fashion is not always easy.

That's the kind of reasoning that used to get you into trouble in legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.

And should one run the risk of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based on deception and delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.

This was probably a dictum of the community, for it does not occur in the Old Testament in so many words.

Is his analysis sufficiently rich to allow for different levels and specific types of causality, such that causes of a different kind can be understood to cause one another reciprocally, causae ad invincem sunt causae (to use a Scholastic dictum drawn from Aristotle), thus avoiding true circularity?

In this sense, the old dictum «Outside the church there is no salvation» takes on new meaning for Volf.

In this limited Whiteheadian context we can certainly accept Aristotle's dictum that actuality precedes real potentiality (though it is also true that in some sense «general» potentiality precedes actuality for Whitehead).

Preaching at the final festival service, church historian Martin Marty recalled Alfred North Whitehead's dictum, «Seek simplicity — and mistrust it,» and contrasted the American spirit of seeking simplicity with a European penchant for complexity:

But Barr vitiates his own potentially formidable case against Childs by continually allowing himself to be diverted from the great hermeneutical issues to attack Childs for this or that comment, some of them mere obiter dicta.

While this position opens the way for wide differences of theological and moral conviction, we prefer that to the straitjacket of uncontestable dicta from some official interpreter.

Moreover, when Roe is read with Doe, third - trimester restrictions are effectively ruled out as well — for Roe's dictum that such restrictions might be permissible if they did not interfere with the mother's health was negated by Doe's definition of «health» as «well - being.»

The dictum that «the Sermon on the Mount is not for statesmen,» has become a predominant influence upon Christian political theory in our time.3 One contemporary Christian philosopher rejects all naïve ethical idealism in politics with the assertion: «The Christian kingdom is not of this world, it belongs to the realm of the spirit.

It has been common for Christians to appeal to the dictum of St. Paul, «If it is for this life only that Christ has given us hope, we of all men are most to be pitied.

For the most part, secular commentators in the press and academy have shown themselves to be well out of their depth even when addressing their own religious traditions, and the political naivete displayed by religious commentators has only reinforced Burke's famous dictum that «politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.»

She accepted without question, for example, the pope's dictum on birth control, writing, rather tersely, «Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding» (p. 338).

Moreover, Samuel's dictum, «To obey is better than sacrifice» is also confirmed by Jesus because he made the same point in his own context (for instance, Mark 7:1 - 23, Matthew 5:21 - 24).

And, on the basis of what he calls» [Samuel] Alexander's dictum» — namely «To be real is to have causal powers» (SM 348)-- he says that the reality of the mental entails the reality of mental causation: «What possible good could causeless and effectless entities do for us?»

This rather enigmatic dictum could perhaps be interpreted in a number of ways, but we have the authority of the great medieval Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides to see the statement as a justification for natural law.

It might be objected that all that has been done here is to amplify Whitehead's dictum, «For physics, the thing itself is what it does» (AI 157).

For example, in The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption, volume two of his Dogmatics, he treats the work of Christ before the person of Christ, thereby following through on the famous dictum of Melanchthon: hoc est Christum cognoscere, beneficia eius cognoscere (to know Christ is to know his benefits).

The Portuguese came from the West where a rigid interpretation of the dictum had prevailed for a long time and had become acute in the 16th century in the context of the anti-Protestant Counter Reformation spirit.

Marie Hendrickz, official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that in view of the growing popularity of animal rights movements, the church needs to ask itself to what extent Christ's dictum, «Do to others whatever you would have them do to you,» can be applied to the animal world.

And yet most Christians today do not read 1 Corinthians 11 as a universal dictum regarding God's design for hairstyles and head coverings.

The skin for shoes and the flesh for food, was his dictum....

Thus, Whitehead points out, the ontological principle «underlies Descartes» dictum: «For this reason, when we perceive any attribute, we therefore conclude that some existing thing or substance to which it may be attributed is necessarily present.»»

Today's generation, if they turn to the right channel and find the right show waiting for them, may instead discover the truth of Chesterton's dictum: «Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.»

We may contrast this rigorism with Nathaniel Ward's dictum as the self - appointed spokesman for the most rigid of the English — the Bay Puritans — that while Scriptural injunctions make it impossible for the State «to give an Affirmative Toleration to any false Religion, or Opinion whatsoever» on the basis of concession as a right, yet it «must connive in some Cases.

Whatever St. Cyprian may have meant by his dictum extra ecclesiam nulla salus, it can not mean for us that outside the empirical Church as it is known and visible on earth, there is no possibility of the redeemed life with God in Christ.

The arrive - early dictum (to allow for screening delays) has resulted in airports full of travelers with time on their hands and the sure knowledge that the airlines have no intention of feeding them.

Harold Wilson's often tritely - invoked dictum that a week is a long time in politics certainly does seem to sum - up George Osborne's terribilis autem sabbati (if my Latin for «terrible week» is indeed accurate).

Mrs Thatcher obviously did not understand her Bible that well, but her harsh dictum seems well suited for Conservative party politics.

Echoing St. Francis» dictum, «It is not fitting when in God's service to have a gloomy face or a chilling look,» Francis exhorts his audience on the need for cheerful stewardship and against the dangers of «spiritual Alzheimer's» as the camera lingers on one ashen, unsmiling visage after another.

It's not for nothing that Tolstoy is a touchstone for both Chris and the movie — his dictum that «every happy family is happy in the same way; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way» remains unspoken but hangs over the movie.

You might say director Yance Ford followed a dictum from the late Carrie Fisher for his film Strong Island: «Take your broken heart, make it into art.»

We can be overwhelmed by these vast differences or we can keep in mind the simple dictum, Look for the Strengths.

For example, IDEO, one of the world's most admired product design firms, follows a methodology that is based on the following dictum, «Fail often in order to succeed sooner.»

Don't be cruel: appreciating the year - round joys of poetry For those of us who write poetry, this time of year is always occasion to reflect upon T.S. Eliot's dictum that «April is the cruelest month.»

In Anil Ananthaswamy's The Man Who Wasn't There, Descartes» most famous dictum not only makes an appearance, it serves as the backdrop for the entire work,...

This dictum has become so predominant that non-believers have largely been hushed for fear of being labelled cranks.

Those letters describe the rationale for Buffett's dictum, «It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.»

However, as the popular dictum says, it often makes better sense to prevent the occurrence of such conditions rather than wait for it to fully develop and to be treated with costlier therapies.

They stand as painterly proofs for Reinhardt's dictum of art as a self - contained formal system.

This reveals Goodroad's knowledge of art history and places him in a Modernist context (the Nabis acknowledged flatness in painting long before Clement Greenberg made it a dictum for painting).

Splendid to come across Serra's hand - drawn list of «actions» illustrating his famed dictum that «drawing is a verb», as well as a scheme for Yale University by the disruptive architect Paul Rudolph, although the architectural department must have passed on his free - wheeling projects because it reveals nothing of such of his tsunami inversions as the legendary room that invited you to sit, read and eat on furniture overlaid with shag carpeting.