Moritz Schlick quotes

Moritz Schlick quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verificationâ€¦ we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.”
-- Moritz Schlick

#Method Quotes

“Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.”
“EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.”
“Stalin's methods did not help.”

Source : "One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" by Ralph de Toledano, (p. 243), 1969.
“It's not the method, it's the mindset.”
“I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.”
“Languages are true analytical methods.”

Source : "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.
“A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.”
“There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”
“All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.”
“I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.”

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