Quotes About Analysis

The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to it.

Let us not forget this: when 'I raise my arm', my arm goes up. And the problem arises: what is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena: our investigation, however, is directed not towards phenomena, but, as one might say, towards the 'possibilities' of phenomena.

Mathematical logic has completely deformed the thinking of mathematicians and philosophers.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A

There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

The logical forms are anumerical. Therefore there are in logic no pre-eminent numbers, and therefore there is no philosophical monism or dualism, etc.

The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.

Mathematics is a method of logic.

Numbers never lie, after all: they simply tell different stories depending on the math of the tellers.

I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.

For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.

Therefore, after analyzing each of these tools, we shall in the next section examine the will to use them, which is love.

A falta de uma crítica assim é um dos maiores males de que padece a nossa literatura; é mister que a análise corrija ou anime a invenção, que os pontos de doutrina e de história se investiguem, que as belezas se estudem, que os senões se apontem, que o gosto se apure e eduque, e se desenvolva e caminhe aos altos destinos que a esperam.

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.

As anyone who has ever started with a high concept and then worked backward to find numbers to fit the theory knows, it is not unusual for the theory to make a lot of sense "in hindsight.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work.

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.