Propositions Quotes

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

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

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

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.