Prior Odds

Famous quotes containing the words prior and/or odds:

“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)