Kurt Godel Quotes on Mind
Kurt Friedrich Godel was an Austrian-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher and one of the most important logicians in the history of the discipline. This page collects quotes attributed to Kurt Godel on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.”
As quoted in Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979) by Robert Goldblatt , p. 13 -
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
Reflections on Kurt Gödel , MIT Press, Hao Wang 1987, page 95, according to Karl Menger -
“But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education ); reason itself does not err.”
Attributed as a remark of 29th November 1972, in Incompleteness (2005) by Rebecca Goldstein -
“There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived.”
As quoted in A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy (1996) by Hao Wang , p. 316 -
“The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact. Wish is a force as applied to thinking beings, to realize something. A fulfilled wish is a union of wish and fact. The meaning of the whole world is the separation and the union of fact and wish.”
As quoted in The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (MIT Press) 2013 by Yanofsky, Noson S