Carnap's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

Henry Van Dyke

#4. You came into my life and you healed me. You made me feel alive again.

Jay McLean

#5. WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!

Al Franken

#6. In logic, there are no morals.

Rudolf Carnap

#7. Now, the truth is that when one has been in a state of mind (as nurses call it) - and the tears still stood in Orlando's eyes - the thing one is looking at becomes, not itself, but another thing, which is bigger and much more important and yet remains the same thing.

Virginia Woolf

#8. 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

#9. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

E. M. Forster

#10. Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

Cassandra Clare

#11. The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rudolf Carnap

#13. We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

Dinesh D'Souza

#14. I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D.

Stephen Hawking

#15. Deep inside of us we all know there is someone we were meant to be.

David Kessler

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Rudolf Carnap

#19. Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Rudolf Carnap

#20. Psalms 46

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Anonymous

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

Rudolf Carnap

#22. What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Barack Obama

#23. 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

#24. How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.

Ken Follett

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

Rudolf Carnap

#26. Does God write?
No, never.
God speaks,
Never writes at all.
Gita was spoken
Bible in Church is read aloud

Santosh Kumar

#27. Wonderful news, a lovely day, but I don't trust good news and I don't like good weather. Dread has been my faithful companion, and without it I am alone.

Abigail Thomas