Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm impervious to logic.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

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 see it, but I don't believe it.

Intuition is more important to discovery 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 think I think, therefore I think I am.

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

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.