Supposition Quotes

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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,… — John Stuart Mill
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition.… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any… — Andreas Osiander
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the… — Antoine Lavoisier
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out… — Peter Lilley
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
Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there. — Kallistos Ware
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. — George Canning
This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,… — Jorge Luis Borges
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism â€” at least in the sense of this work â€” is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid. — Lawrence Summers

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