Elementary Proposition

Famous quotes containing the words elementary proposition, elementary and/or proposition:

“Elementary propositions consist of names.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)