Presupposition Quotes
- Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from… — Adolf Hitler
- The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at… — Martin Heidegger
- Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings,… — Werner Heisenberg
- The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand… — Aldrich Ames
- The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification… we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the… — Moritz Schlick
- The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. — James Mark Baldwin
- Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. — Rajneesh
- Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
- The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of… — Pope Benedict XVI