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Logician Inspirational Quotes (2008)

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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Aristotle
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Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Aristotle
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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.
Aristotle
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell
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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher for myth is composed of wonder.
Aristotle
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget
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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Aristotle
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
Bertrand Russell
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Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
Lewis Carroll
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
Lewis Carroll
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
Bertrand Russell
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No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
Bertrand Russell
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Aristotle
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The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects.
Bertrand Russell
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Aristotle
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Aristotle
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Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
Bertrand Russell
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