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- 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… — Arthur Koestler
- 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
- The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which… — Werner Heisenberg
- A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray
- 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
- 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… — 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… — 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