Propositions Quotes

Propositions Quote of the day

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other 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.

Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

All propositions are of equal value.

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.

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.