Simple Propositions

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or propositions:

“How many desolate creatures on the earth
Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship
And social comfort, in a hospital.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)