Determining Quotes

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.