Stating Quotes

“There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.”

“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”

“The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances.”

“There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.”

“Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational”

“It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.”

“The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.”

“Men in particular,” he went on, stating the loathsome truth, “are given a fair amount of leeway in the public eye.”

“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.”