Self Evident Quotes

105 Self Evident quotes by 82 unique authors

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
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than… — Fred Hoyle
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you… — Jonathan Franzen
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of… — Ernestine Rose
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or… — Karen Armstrong
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are… — Rob Pike
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called… — Hugo Ball
Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have… — John Stuart Mill
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the… — Samuel Adams
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. — Martin Buber
It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's… — Prince Charles
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

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