Tautologies Quotes & Sayings

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything. — Heidi Julavits

Love is the greatest religion that ever was or ever will be. — Alvin Conway

Ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas. — Martin Cohen

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue. — Henri Poincare

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it. — Drake

Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways to do it. One way is to do things for Him that He needs to have done - run errands for Him, carry messages for Him, fight on His side, feed His lambs, and so on. The other way is to do things for Him that you need to do - sing songs for Him, tell Him what's on your mind and in your heart, in general rejoice in Him ... — Frederick Buechner

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes. — Carmen Martin Gaite

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. — Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures. — Gianni Versace

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies. — A.J. Ayer

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. — Herbert Simon

I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart. — Marie Forleo

The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club. — Seanan McGuire

I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality ... — Kathryn Stockett

In just a week, he'd taught her so much. That good, honorable men like him stayed the same after death. That she'd existed for too long with only hatred and revenge in her heart. Love was a much nobler cause to live for. Love didn't follow its own selfish agenda; it was willing to make sacrifices for others. How strange that it took an undead man to show her how to live. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes. — Christopher Hitchens

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. — Werner Heisenberg