Life Quote by John Stuart Mill

“The necessity of an enumeration of Existences, as the basis of Logic, did not escape the attention of the schoolmen, and of their master…

— John Stuart Mill

“ Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. ”

— Mark Haddon

“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”

— Francis Bacon

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents…

— Bertrand Russell

“Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

“Of all conceivable things that which is most alien to their spirit is to sacrifice any distinct interest or particular right to the requirements…

— Lord Acton

“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close of…

— George Eliot

“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude and variety…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I cannot forbear adding to these reasonings an observation, which may, perhaps, be found of some importance. In every system of morality, which I…

— David Hume

“On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things”

— Jostein Gaarder

“The unencumbered mind recalls all that it has read, all that pleased the eye, and delighted the ear, and reflecting on every idea which…

— Attributed to Zimmerman by Henry M. Stanley

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it,…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher