A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless. — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology. — Rosalind Russell Copy Share Image
Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality. — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“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… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that “0” is part of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . . — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“30 November. My dustbin has been on its last legs for some time, and after the binmen have called this morning I… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we… — Will Self Copy Share Image
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities? It is only by means of forgetfulness that man… — Friedrich Neitzsche Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“WHAT IT IS It is what it is. But what is it? What it is— Some soft tautology whose terms are touch… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
