Mason Cooley Quotes

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.