Postulate Quotes

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. - Elihu Root

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. - Ernest Renan

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy. - William Orville Douglas

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. - Lao Tzu

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism. - D.H. Lawrence

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. - Tommy Lee Jones

It's not always necessary ... I don't always do it. But if something important has happened, and it hasn't been resolved, like this bombing raid on Libya ... I just postulate that. - Nelson DeMille