A Posteriori Quotes

#1. I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Gottfried Leibniz

#2. History cannot teach us any general rule, principle, or law. There is no means to abstract from a historical experience a posteriori any theories or theorems concerning human conduct and policies. The

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

Saul Kripke

#6. The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.

William James

#7. I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.

Sebastiao Salgado

#8. In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Pete Hamill

#9. I came here to make babies with you and that's what I'll do.

Mizore

#10. Don't be a puppet of work; let work be your puppet.

Joey Lawsin

#11. As long as we have life, we must keep learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.

John Barrasso