We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It's one thing to assent to propositions like 'The way of things is ineffable', and quite another to internalise what it is… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are… — Collin Peterson Copy Share Image
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
