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Logician Inspirational Quotes (2011)

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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
Bertrand Russell
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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.
Alfred Tarski
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.
Bertrand Russell
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Aristotle
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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior and the one rules, and the other is ruled this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
Aristotle
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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That which is excellent endures.
Aristotle
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
Bertrand Russell
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Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!
Kurt Gödel
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Aristotle
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll
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So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Aristotle
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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
Lewis Carroll
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When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.
Aristotle
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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.
Lewis Carroll
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There is always something new coming out of Africa.
Aristotle
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Bertrand Russell
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand Russell
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