Quotes by Propositions We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. Aleister Crowley propositionsconditions Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman. Angela Carter propositionsspacemen The above proposition is occasionally useful. Bertrand Russell propositions True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. Cleveland Abbe propositionshypothesisinquiry Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Dalai Lama propositionsidentityreality We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition. E. Stanley Jones propositionswillingnow-and-then To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. Edmund Husserl phenomenologypropositionsconsciousness Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more. Emily Giffin propositionslove-is Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying. Gayle Forman propositionsknowswant Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all. Georg C. Lichtenberg propositionsagreementmen A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra propositionsentityvirtue Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. Gilbert K. Chesterton propositionsincapacityalternatives I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me. George Carlin break-evenpropositionspot This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming. Haruki Murakami propositionsimportantmay Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. Itzhak Perlman propositionspreparingmusic-is For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it. James W. Sire common-experiencepropositionsbelieve Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition. Juan Cole propositionstrickycountry There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. Kenneth R. Miller controversypropositionstheory The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law. Ludwig Wittgenstein propositionslogiclaw If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it. Milton Friedman propositionsstatesifs12»
