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Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

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.

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.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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

If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

I'm impervious to logic.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

In logic, there are no morals.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

"I see it, but I don't believe it.