Universal Negative Proposition

Famous quotes containing the words universal, negative and/or proposition:

    “Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)