What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.
It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
Mankind is a great, an immense family. . . This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.
My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Truth is that which cannot be proved false.
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.
There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone. . . so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.
I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved. . . In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. . . . You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.