Sake Quote by Anonymous

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

— Ambrose Bierce

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved…

— William of Ockham

“it is unmistakable; it does not need other proofs to back it up; it is self-evident and attests to its own truth.”

— John W. Loftus

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“If you Believe something, No Proof is Necessary! If you Do Not Believe something, No Proof is Sufficient"!”

— Anonymous on Proof

“A nation built on ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ cannot long survive when its people are taught that no truth is self-evident…

— Brutus

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

— John Tillotson

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

— Aristotle

Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.

— Epictetus

“What can be asserted without proof can be dissmissed without proof.”

— Christopher Hitchens