Propositions Quotes

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

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

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

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

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

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

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.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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

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

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

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

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

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

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

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow