Rudolf Carnap Quotes

In logic, there are no morals.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Anything you can do, I can do meta

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.