Sentence examples for dictum it from inspiring English sources

Arnauld cites the dictum, "it is in the idea of each thing that we see its properties," and takes it to refer to an explicit reflection upon an idea that represents its object as having certain properties necessarily.

In its best-known dictum, it declared, "No deity will save us; we must save ourselves".

As a dictum, it served him well, but it hardly amounts to a business model.

A few management types still occasionally debate whether, as per Machiavelli's dictum, it is better to be feared than loved.

And what we have quoted from the opinion in that case cannot be regarded as obiter dictum, it having furnished the entire basis for the conclusion reached.

Music was again about intervals, rhythm and meter, and, in Stravinsky's famous dictum, it was powerless to express anything outside itself.

"Yogi Berra does have some pertinence here," said Professor Friedland, referring to the baseball legend's dictum that "it ain't over till it's over".

But is this a true picture of the state of the world or a reflection of the media's entrenched dictum: "If it bleeds it leads"?

And, more subtly, even if anecdote is correct, it does not answer the question of whether power tends to corrupt, as Lord Acton's dictum has it, or whether it merely attracts the corruptible.

In closing, McCain quoted Aung San Suu Kyi's famous dictum that "it is not power that corrupts but fear.

The most famous expression of this relative weighting of likely harms is the Blackstonian dictum that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer" (Blackstone 1770: 352).