Source: Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969), P. 77.
“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
“Every definition implies an axiom, since it asserts the existence of the object defined.”
Part II. Ch. 2 : Mathematical Definitions and Education, p. 131
Science and Method (1908)
Context: Every definition implies an axiom, since it asserts the existence of the object defined. The definition then will not be justified, from the purely logical point of view, until we have proved that it involves no contradiction either in its terms or with the truths previously admitted.
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Kenneth Boulding (1957) Segments of the economy, 1956, a symposium: the Fifth Economics-in-Action Program sponsored jointly by Republic Steel Corporation and Case Institute of Technology
1950s
“There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”
Israel National News http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157986#.U5gRyvldXs9, 18 July 2012
Last public speech before his death (4 March 1799); as quoted in Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondences and Speeches (1891) by William Wirt Henry, Vol. 2, p. 609-610 http://www.archive.org/stream/pathenrylife02henrrich#page/608/mode/2up
1790s, Speech (1799)
Context: Let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. Let us preserve our strength for the French, the English, the Germans, or whoever else shall dare invade our territory, and not exhaust it in civil commotions and intestine wars.
Euphoria https://genius.com/Zhiar-ali-euphoria-lyrics, 2018
Song lyrics
“A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol”
