Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

Elementary propositions consist of names.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

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

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

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.

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

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

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

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.

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

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

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.

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

I am beyond logic and rationality.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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