Carnap Quotes

#1. According to Carnap, ... "reality"is a metaphysical term for which there is no legitimate use ...
We are interested in other people's loves and hates, pleasures and pains, because we are firmly persuaded
that they are as "real" as our own. We mean something we say this.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
[Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

Rudolf Carnap

#3. It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Hilary Putnam

#4. Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

Philippa Gregory

#5. That is Kingsley Edge. And he is the opposite of boring. And if you three have any sense you'll stay away from him."
"What sense I had just took her panties off and laid down in front of him,

Tiffany Reisz

#6. In logic, there are no morals.

Rudolf Carnap

#7. At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

Reese Hoffa

#8. Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

Ken Mehlman

#9. You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

Christopher Pike

#10. In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Rudolf Carnap

#11. If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

Rudolf Carnap

#12. The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Rudolf Carnap

#13. It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Rudolf Carnap

#14. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Rudolf Carnap

#16. Anything you can do, I can do meta

Rudolf Carnap

#17. Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

Rudolf Carnap

#18. Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Confucius

#19. Everywhere was filled with painful, jarring reminders of what I'd lost: an elderly couple sitting on a bench, gnarly, arthritic fingers interlaced; a handsome young man in a baseball cap whispering something in his pregnant wife's ear, his arm draped protectively around her shoulders.

Catherine Sanderson

#20. Jezreel, God plants!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Candace Bushnell

#22. Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Rudolf Carnap