- Perhaps
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- Nov 07, 2020
Axiom Quotes
Old rules, tested and sometimes overturned.
An axiom is treated here as a rule worth questioning as much as trusting, from baseball's claim that repeating a title is the hardest feat, to a pointed rejection of "truth is the best policy" as too simple a guide. It shares ground with our Assumed quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
- Blinded
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020