Gottlob Frege Quotes

#1. The thought: A logical inquiry

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#2. A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way.

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#3. I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

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#4. Arithmetic has began to totter.

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#5. Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

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#6. One can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

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#7. The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

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#8. What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

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#9. There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

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#10. A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

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#11. Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

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