Propositions Quotes

100 Propositions quotes by 82 unique authors

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,… — Noam Chomsky
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions;… — Neil Postman
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having.… — Gayle Forman
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves. — Stephen King
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true. — C.S. Lewis
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay… — Amelia Bloomer
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost -… — David Wroblewski
Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to… — Robert Dallek
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series… — Francis Spufford
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general… — Nassau William Senior
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be… — Talcott Parsons
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in… — Talcott Parsons
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We… — Sam Harris
For it is just this question of pain that parts us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your… — H.G. Wells
For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it are… — Robert Hooke
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan

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