Top 18 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
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