Acceptance QuotesIn my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.  What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance. Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it? In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history. The framers discerned fundamental principles.... But our acceptance of the fundamental principles has not and should not bind us to those precise, at times anachronistic, contours. We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans... The ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time? For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. What the constitutional fundamentals meant to the wisdom of other times cannot be their measure to the vision of our time. Similarly, what those fundamentals mean for us, our descendants will learn, cannot be their measure to the vision of their time. |
