Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

The decision-makers should communicate the customer pictures and the logic of the strategies and actions. That communication allows employees throughout the organization to implement the strategies and actions, tweaking them appropriately in response to variations in the marketplace. It also allows employees to recognize information in the marketplace that contradicts the customer pictures, either because the pictures were not entirely correct or because customers have changed.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

The logic of the heart is absurd

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.

The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential and relegated to the logic of a savage market instrumentality.