Quote by Roger Scruton

“For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall least see…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“The implication is that logical or mathematical proofs cuts no ice in adjudicating competing claims of fact.[101] Analytic propositions “are entirely devoid of factual…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right…

— Alfred Korzybski

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

— Jean Piaget

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

— William Godwin

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

“In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.”

— Peter Sloterdijk

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye…

— Eric Temple Bell

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel