Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. — John Keats Copy Share Image
It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. — Robert N. Lee Copy Share Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“One of the most important axioms is that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance plain food, which a man has… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known,… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional -… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Origin of the Logical. Where has logic originated in men’s heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the domain of which must originally… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.” — Peter Green Copy Share Image