Self Evident Quotes

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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other… — Lysander Spooner
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to… — Terence McKenna
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work… — Thomas Huxley
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we… — Christopher Hitchens
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that… — Kenny Smith
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and… — Darrel Ray
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. — Alan Dershowitz
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen… — Adam Gopnik
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons. — Walter Lippmann
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
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do. — Anthony Trollope
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. — Edward Snowden
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. — Arthur Koestler

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