“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends. — Robert N. Lee Copy Share Image
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. — John Keats Copy Share Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
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
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
For somebody who's never run for office before, Donald Trump understands that old axiom, "Define yourself before you're defined." — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant Copy Share Image
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.” — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Mathematics works only with computationally reducible systems. Axioms and deductive logic are intended to provide shortcuts, to give general results that can… — Richard Bookstaber 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
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
“Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.” — Peter Green Copy Share Image
“people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
![“You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d46/stephen-king-13_axioms_you-can-go-through-your-whole-life-telli_1696457.jpg)
