Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or names:
“The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)