Proposition Quotes

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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing… — Louis de Bernieres
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me… — Isadora Duncan
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is… — Bertrand Russell
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it mustï»¿ be the only solution. — Raymond E. Feist
The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best… — Bob Dylan
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about… — Joseph J. Ellis
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming. — Haruki Murakami
Love is seldomâ€”almost neverâ€”an even proposition. Someone always loves more. — Emily Giffin
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth… — Anne Rice
It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of… — Richard P. Feynman
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I… — Isaac Asimov
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. — Steig Larsson
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable… — Bertolt Brecht
Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not… — C.S. Lewis
Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman. — Angela Carter
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves. — Stephen King
The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the… — Gardiner Spring

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