The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition. — Alfred Kinsey 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
We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the… — Manu Dibango Copy Share Image
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
“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
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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