Resolve

Famous quotes containing the word resolve:

“Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)