Simple Propositions

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or propositions:

    “I would like a simple life
    yet all night I am laying
    poems away in a long box.
    It is my immortality box,
    my lay-away plan,
    my coffin.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, “the whole is greater than its part;” “reaction is equal to action;” “the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;” and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)