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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Exhausted, Spades, Justification
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Done, Kind, Justification
"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

Popularity has become its own justification.

Jonathan Franzen
Popularity, Justification
Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.170, Macmillan

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

Jesse Jackson
Looks, Justification, Picks

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

George Henry Lewes
Silence, Insincerity, Justification
George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nasty, Social, Justification
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.902, First Avenue Editions

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

Ernest Sosa
Understanding, Latter, Justification
Source: www.3ammagazine.com

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Desmond Tutu
Slavery, Argument, Justification
Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Ayn Rand
Ideas, Crime, Justification
Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.129, Penguin

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

Ashly Lorenzana
Action, Life Is, Justification

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

Ambrose Bierce
Guilt, Justification, Wronged
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.8, 谷月社

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Albert Einstein
Experience, Legitimacy, Justification
Albert Einstein (2014). “The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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