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“A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“A proof once established is better left so.”
Source: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
“A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".”
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical machine following definite rules need never come to a conclusion. It may go on grinding through different stages without ever coming to a stop, either by describing a pattern of activity of continually increasing complexity, or by going into a repetitive process like the end of a chess game in which there is a continuing cycle of perpetual check. This occurs in the case of some of the paradoxes of Cantor and Russell. Let us consider the class of all classes which are not members of themselves. Is this class a member of itself? If it is, it is certainly not a member of itself; and if it is not, it is equally certainly a member of itself. A machine to answer this question would give the successive temporary answers: “yes,” “no,” “yes,” “no,” and so on, and would never come to equilibrium.
Bertrand Russell’s solution of his own paradoxes was to affix to every statement a quantity, the so-called type, which serves to distinguish between what seems to be formally the same statement, according to the character of the objects with which it concerns itself—whether these are “things,” in the simplest sense, classes of “things,” classes of classes of “things,” etc. The method by which we resolve the paradoxes is also to attach a parameter to each statement, this parameter being the time at which it is asserted. In both cases, we introduce what we may call a parameter of uniformization, to resolve an ambiguity which is simply due to its neglect.”
Source: Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
“A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.”
Source: Mathematics in Western Culture
“A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.”
“A propagandized population has a hard time choosing worthy heroes. It is high time Americans celebrate the Anti-Federalists, for they were correct in predicting the fate of freedom after Philadelphia.”
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
Source: Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion
“A proper apology consists of conveying the 3 Rs:
regret (genuine empathy with the other)responsibility (not blaming someone else)and remedy (your willingness to fix it).”
Source: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.”
Source: The Promised Land
“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”
Source: The Promised Land
“A proper bond between two people is severely damaged if the process is rushed.”
“A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.”
“A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")”
Source: The Hidden Wound
“A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.”
“A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”
Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
“A proper, effective and strong cleaning program is often seen as secondary by many businesses. But in many if not most cases, it is the first thing a customer experiences.”
“A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.”
“A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.”
“A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.”
“A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.”
“A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.”
“A proper scholarly method is intrinsically antifascist, in that it treats sceptically what fascists regard as beyond criticism.”
Source: Fascism: A Very Short Introduction
“A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“A proper table setting provides no place for a cell phone.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.”
“A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.”
“A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.”
“A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.”
“A property doesn’t need to be perfect; it just needs to be yours.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.”
“A property is that which not at all
Can be disjoined and severed from a thing
Without a fatal dissolution: such,
Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow
To the wide waters, touch to corporal things,
Intangibility to the viewless void.”
Source: The Way Things Are
“A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.”
“A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.”
“A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.”
Source: Healology
“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.”
“A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.”
“A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.”
Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture
“A prophet is the eye of the people.”
“A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.”
Source: My Life - Oswald Mosley
“A prophet prays.”
“A prophet, priest, or politician can judge absolutely, and moreover, as we well know, they do not refrain from doing so. But artists cannot. If they judged absolutely, they would classify the nuances of reality as either good or evil, with nothing in between, thus creating melodrama. The goal of art, on the contrary, is not to establish rules or to reign; it is first and foremost to understand.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“A prophet should proclaim the Kingdom of God, to turn people from the error of their evil ways, to return to the righteous God, the only wise God.”
“A prophet weeps while others are laughing.”
Source: The integrity crisis
“A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.”
Source: The Prophets
“A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.”
Source: The five ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' proofs of God's existence
“A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.”
“A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.”
Source: Philosophical remarks
“A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays