Quotes About Tautologies

#1. Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Henri Poincare

#2. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

#3. All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

Herbert Simon

#4. Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Martin Cohen

#6. A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.

Heidi Julavits

#7. Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#8. History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#9. Kanye West is what happens when you tell average children they're special. Tap,

S. Elliot Brandis

#10. Sex doesn't have to be taught. It's something most of us are born with.

Pat Paulsen

#11. But all is forgotten and I have done nothing, unless what I am doing now is something, and nothing could give me greater satisfaction.

Samuel Beckett

#12. Living in the fifties America was in many ways like living in a public space that's suddenly emptied out, a theater after closing, or a classroom after school. The emptiness could feel liberating, but it could also make you feel blank and vaguely nostalgic.

James Harvey

#13. The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.

Seanan McGuire

#14. I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Nikki Giovanni

#15. Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.

Marquis De Lafayette

#16. If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

Dave Matthews

#17. What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person's heartbeat beside him?

Rachel Cohn

#18. Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar