Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or position:
“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)