This "bodhi-mind"—the profound aspiration for enlightenment for oneself and all beings—had been taught to be the crucial starting point for the Mahayana bodhisattva, and other Japanese Pure Land masters such as Genshin had affirmed it to be the core of genuine desire for the Pure Land.
A close friend of mine in the Senate affirmed it to me the other day when he said that when he meets with workers who are not organized, they react with much more reserve than the union workers he meets -- even when the two groups have so much else about their lives in common.
What it is for a finite mind to clearly and distinctly perceive X is for its intellect to have a clear and distinct idea of X and for its will to affirm X, but while the intellect is presenting this clear and distinct idea, the will cannot stop affirming it to turn its attention to something else.
The faraway flash was "so small a body that he could not affirm it to be land," Columbus wrote, referring to himself in the third person.
"Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun," I went on, weakly, "though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom".
However, for Schlegel, this did not make comedy dependent on tragedy; on the contrary, he affirms it to be "a species of poetry as independent and original as tragedy itself" (LDA, 108).
In Nietzsche's moral philosophy, the sole ethical command is the doctrine of eternal return: If you would affirm something, you should affirm it to eternity.
In Nietzsche's moral philosophy, the sole ethical command is the doctrine of eternal return: if you would affirm something, you should affirm it to eternity; you should want it to repeat itself, without any variation, over and again for an infinity of consecutively identical universes.
We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence".
In response to previous, similar findings, the government has affirmed it is "entitled to take measures, including detention, to uphold Australia's national security".
This bloody prelude to the new regime was unsettling, and Hadrian affirmed it was contrary to his will; he laid the blame on Attianus, just as he often blamed instructions of the dead Trajan for other unpopular acts.
