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Tautology Quotes

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Lasts, Emotion, Tautology

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.123, Verso

Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.

Ignorance, Atheism, Tautology

Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

Social, Entrepreneurial, Tautology

Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.19, Palgrave Macmillan

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Rosalind Russell

Mother, Forgiving, Tautology

Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

All mathematics is tautology.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mathematics, Tautology

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

Use, Facts, Tautology

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical, Contradiction, Tautology

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

Reason, Tautology

J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.25, Princeton University Press

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

Two Sides, Definitions, Tautology

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

William Rounseville Alger

Sublime, Tautology, Audacious

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