Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

The decision-makers should communicate the customer pictures and the logic of the strategies and actions. That communication allows employees throughout the organization to implement the strategies and actions, tweaking them appropriately in response to variations in the marketplace. It also allows employees to recognize information in the marketplace that contradicts the customer pictures, either because the pictures were not entirely correct or because customers have changed.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

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 needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

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

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

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

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

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 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.

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 no logic to grief.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 solution of every problem is another problem

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

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

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

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

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

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.