Characteristics Quote by Louis Althusser

“A nation built on ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ cannot long survive when its people are taught that no truth is self-evident…

— Brutus

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

— Ambrose Bierce

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident,…

— Tom Nichols

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

— Saul Alinsky

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the…

— Anonymous

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

— J. Martin Klotsche

“Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as…

— Aldous Huxley

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

— Anonymous

“facts never disconfirm a good ideology”

— Mark Blyth

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a…

— Henry Mayhew