Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

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!

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

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!

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!

The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.

The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

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?

Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.

Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!

The meaning is the ending.

Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged.

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!

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.