I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki 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
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing… — David Murray Cowie Copy Share Image
I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss… — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image