Self Evident Quotes
105 quotes by 82 authors
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of…
— Ronald Takaki
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If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident…
— Scott Lively
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident…
— Ernest Lawrence
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When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about…
— Densey Clyne
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We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can…
— James Madison
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and…
— Ani DiFranco
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts,
— Louis Althusser
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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 by…
— William of Ockham
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Everything is self-evident.
— Rene Descartes
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You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
— George Orwell
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What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We…
— Barack Obama
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For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must…
— Barack Obama
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Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of…
— John Brown
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If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
— C.S. Lewis
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