"Axiomatic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the society by Huxley was to show that many of the axioms of current speculation are far from being axiomatic, and that dogmatic assertion on some of the cardinal points of metaphysic is unwarranted by the evidence of fact. To find these seeming axioms set aside as unproven, was, it appears from his "Life," disconcerting to such members of the society as Cardinal Manning, whose arguments depended ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... is an alternative Axiom which may be substituted for that which introduces Book II., and which will probably commend itself to many minds as being more truly axiomatic. To substitute this, however, involves some additions and alterations, ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... seems to give us a "sure and connected knowledge of the duties of man" deduced from axiomatic principles. On what authority shall we suspend for the time being this axiomatic principle or that? Is there some deeper principle which lends to each of them its authority, and which may, for cause, withdraw it? There is no hint of such ...
— An Introduction to Philosophy • George Stuart Fullerton
... with all the details of Hamilton's application. We do not agree with him, though he is supported by very eminent authorities, in classifying our conviction of axiomatic principles as belief, and not as knowledge.[AX] But this question does not directly bear on Mr. Mill's criticism. The point of that criticism is, that Hamilton, by admitting a belief in the infinite and unrelated, nullifies his own ...
— The Philosophy of the Conditioned • H. L. Mansel
... weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought. No matter what they want to do, the sanction always comes. They are superficial casuists. They are Jesuitical. They even see their way to doing wrong that right may come of it. One of the pleasant and axiomatic fictions they have created is that they are superior to the rest of mankind in wisdom and efficiency. Therefrom comes their sanction to manage the bread and butter of the rest of mankind. They have even resurrected the theory of the divine ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
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