Quotes on Propositions

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

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

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.