Self-Evident Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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Everything is self-evident.
— Rene Descartes
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
— Anthony Trollope
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The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.
— Kedar Joshi
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
— William Hazlitt
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
— Eric Hoffer
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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 unalienable rights; that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start…
— John W. Vessey, Jr.
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Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always…
— John Ridley
Who Wrote These Self-Evident Quotes
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