“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
“Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn.""That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.”
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”