Famous quotes containing the words prescriptive and/or truth:
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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