Tautology Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno
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… — Arthur Koestler
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better… — Werner Heisenberg
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation… — Alfred North Whitehead
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . . — Karl Popper
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,… — Denis Donoghue
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain
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… — Will Self
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 P. Ramsey

Who Wrote These Tautology Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Tautology Quotes as follows: