Outer Measures

Famous quotes containing the words outer and/or measures:

    “The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.”
    —René Descartes (1596–1650)