Logic
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"Character is not formed in a week or a month."
Aristotle
Attributed
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Aristotle
"Man is by nature a social animal."
Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
Attributed
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Aristotle
Attributed
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
Attributed
"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
Aristotle
Attributed
"All things are full of gods."
Aristotle
"Happiness is the highest good."
Aristotle
"There is no great genius without a touch of madness."
Aristotle
Attributed
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about."
Bertrand Russell
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as necessary to avoid starvation."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"If you wish to avoid disbelief, you must avoid saying what is false."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation should accept beliefs on authority."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to resemble them."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations."
Bertrand Russell
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good."
Bertrand Russell
Attributed
"Language is a tool. Its meaning is its use."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Attributed
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Logic is the foundation of all philosophy."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Attributed
"The world is all that is the case."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A picture held us captive."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Only the mythology of science stands in the way of philosophy."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
Ludwig Wittgenstein