Accepting

Famous quotes containing the word accepting:

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“To accept civilisation as it is practically means accepting decay.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)