Famous quotes containing the words true and/or propositions:
“I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That’s the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We want in every man a long logic; we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)