“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did.… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really… — Adam Schlesinger Copy Share Image
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
