Affirmation

Famous quotes containing the word affirmation:

    The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    Hoot how the inhuman colors fell
    Into place beside her, where she was,
    Like human conciliations, more like
    A profounder reconciling, an act,
    An affirmation free from doubt.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means the affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
    William James (1842–1910)