Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

Elementary propositions consist of names.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.