"Analytic It is clear that the definition of……" — Bertrand Russell
"Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions."
—
Bertrand Russell
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
-
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
-
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
-
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
-
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
-
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
-
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
-
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
-
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
-
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
-
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
-
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
See all 824 quotes by Bertrand Russell »
More Analytic Quotes
This quote is filed under Analytic Quotes,
one of 39 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with…
— Agnes Repplier
-
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to…
— Abraham Maslow
-
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And…
— A.J. Ayer
-
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel…
— Wilfred Bion
-
This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In…
— Stephen Shore
-
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our…
— Sigmund Freud
-
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
— Unknown Author
-
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer…
— Stephen Shore
-
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
— John Ashcroft
-
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
See all 39 Analytic Quotes »