What did Josh Billings mean by: Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don’t understand. - Josh Billings Humorist · USA Copy
+ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Funny, Trust, Truth, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain’t gout. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Lord, Medicine, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Doors, House, Prejudice, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Dollars, Saving, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Air, Echoes, Gossip, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Character, Reputation, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Josh Billings, Return, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
+ It’s not ignorance does so much damage; it’s knowin’ so derned much that ain’t so. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Josh Billings, Damage, Ignorance, 0 - Josh Billings Humorist · USA
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can’t prove them? Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix. - Jerry A. Coyne
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day. - Frank Thomas Baseball player · USA
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. - Gabriel Marcel Philosopher · France
