Admit

Famous quotes containing the word admit:

    “Lady of light, I would admit a dream
    To you, if you would take it in your hand.
    Will you not let it in a gentle stream
    Of living blood? How else may I remand
    Your light if not as pulse upon your ear?”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “If ... we admit a divinity, why not divine worship? and if worship, why not religion to teach this worship? and if a religion, why not the Christian, if a better cannot be assigned, and it be already established by the laws of our country, and handed down to us from our forefathers?”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    “To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
    —William James (1842–1910)