Logicomix Quotes

“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
"Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?"
"Who knows, maybe by whistling?”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“The meaning is the ending.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good enough - not, that is, when you're faced with really hard problems!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Pon un hombre al filo del abismo y -en el improbable caso de que no se caiga- se convertirá en un místico o en un loco... ¡Lo que probablemente sea lo mismo!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

“Actually, we were at the other extreme from giants: we had become dwarfs! And I mean this quite literally. For, often, the right way to philosophize is to make yourself artificially stupid! Only by being "stupid" can you break the barrier of the seemingly obvious.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth