Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

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 logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

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

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

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 real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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.

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

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

There is no logic to grief.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

The solution of every problem is another problem

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.

The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe