Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Logic

Quotes about: Logic

• Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Believe, Knowledge

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

• Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Men, Dying

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.70, Lulu.com

• Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Math, Men, Logic

• The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Example, Logic

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2005). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Devil”, Hesperus Press

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