Top 31 Quotes About Tautology
#1. But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and going ahead. In
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. WHAT IT IS
It is what
it is. But
what is it?
What it is
Some soft
tautology
whose terms
are touch
Time to give, time
to give it up.
Maggie Nelson
#3. I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean, from above.
Terry Pratchett
#4. We are uttering a mere tautology if we mean by 'in the mind' the same as by 'before the mind', i.e. if we mean merely being apprehended by the mind.
Bertrand Russell
#5. Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation..
Peter Atkins
#6. Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno
#7. Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. There are two words to describe the mission of politics: do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.
L. Douglas Wilder
#8. In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection
quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.
Arthur Koestler
#9. To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
Mark Twain
#10. It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Anthony Marais
#12. Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that "0" is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#13. I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.
Nathaniel Fick
#14. Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ...
Karl Popper
#15. My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.
Rosalind Russell
#17. 30 November. My dustbin has been on its last legs for some time, and after the binmen have called this morning I find no trace of it. Never having heard of tautology, the binmen have put the dustbin in the dustbin.
Alan Bennett
#18. I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.
Will Self
#19. Lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
#22. A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.
Denis Donoghue
#23. The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.
Seanan McGuire
#24. Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.
Jeremy Rifkin
#25. For, seen from the outside, from a being who is alien to it, reason is simply a vast tautology.
J.M. Coetzee
#26. The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
Norman Macbeth
#27. A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#28. Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.
Milan Kundera
#30. At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.
Christopher Hitchens
#31. Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe
in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.
Robert A. Heinlein
