Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Everything is self-evident."
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Evident
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Martin Buber
Philosopher
"God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily."
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"It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it."
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"Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them."
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"If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident."
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"To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!"
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