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“That logic, as a science, is susceptible of very wide applications is admitted; but it is equally certain that its ultimate forms and processes are mathematical.”

George Boole (1815–1864) English mathematician, philosopher and logician

Source: 1850s, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), p. 12; Cited in: William Stanley Jevons (1887) The Principles of Science: : A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method. p. 155

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“It is upon the foundation of this general principle, that I purpose to establish the Calculus of Logic, and that I claim for it a place among the acknowledged forms of Mathematical Analysis,”

George Boole (1815–1864) English mathematician, philosopher and logician

Source: 1840s, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, 1847, p. iii
Context: That to the existing forms of Analysis a quantitative interpretation is assigned, is the result of the circumstances by which those forms were determined, and is not to be construed into a universal condition of Analysis. It is upon the foundation of this general principle, that I purpose to establish the Calculus of Logic, and that I claim for it a place among the acknowledged forms of Mathematical Analysis, regardless that in its object and in its instruments it must at present stand alone.

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„Исключение подтверждает правило для неисключительных случаев.“
Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis.

Марк Туллий Цицерон (-106–-43 до н.э.) древнеримский философ и политик

Исключение подтверждает правило.

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„Самое страшное неверие — это неверие в самого себя.“

Томас Карлейль (1795–1881) британский писатель, публицист, историк и философ

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„Богатство мира — в оригинальных людях.“

Томас Карлейль (1795–1881) британский писатель, публицист, историк и философ

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“If I were to start as a God or a prophet I think I should take the line: "Thou shalt not believe in me. Thou shalt not have me for a God.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Samuel Butler's Notebooks (1912) self censored "d_____d" in original publication
Context: It is the manner of gods and prophets to begin: "Thou shalt have none other God or Prophet but me." If I were to start as a God or a prophet I think I should take the line: "Thou shalt not believe in me. Thou shalt not have me for a God. Thou shalt worship any d_____d thing thou likest except me." This should be my first and great commandment, and my second should be like unto it.

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“There is an eternal antagonism of interest between the individual and the world at large.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

The Individual and the World
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
Context: There is an eternal antagonism of interest between the individual and the world at large. The individual will not so much care how much he may suffer in this world provided he can live in men’s good thoughts long after he has left it. The world at large does not so much care how much suffering the individual may either endure or cause in this life, provided he will take himself clean away out of men’s thoughts, whether for good or ill, when he has left it.

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“The written law is binding, but the unwritten law is much more so.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

The Law
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books
Context: The written law is binding, but the unwritten law is much more so. You may break the written law at a pinch and on the sly if you can, but the unwritten law — which often comprises the written — must not be broken. Not being written, it is not always easy to know what it is, but this has got to be done.

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“An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Incoherency of New Ideas
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

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“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Complete Death
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIII - Death

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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Speech at the Somerville Club, February 27, 1895

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“You hang me now, but I'm not alone. There are two hundred million of us. You can't hang us all. They will avenge me.”

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941) Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union

Quoted in №34. "Очерк Петра Александровича Лидова "Таня" http://zoyakosmodemyanskaya.ru/books5-34.htm

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