Quotes About Logic

It was a child's logic, too simplistic to be real. Make it all go back to the way it was before, he proposed. Could not he see that history was not a cup of tea, to be poured back into a pot?

I had been outnumbered. Outmaneuvered. They'd withheld information from me. Worse, logic and rationality were on their side.

He would never trust to luck that his luck would not desert him. This convolution of logic pleased him.

This is a quote from C. S. Lewis. It helped me a lot when I was trying to decide God's will fro me when my emotions were overruling my logic. Feelings come adn go, and when they come, a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Following the path of science trained me to separate, to distinguish perception from physical reality, to atomize complexity into its smallest components, to honor the chain of evidence and logic, to discern one thing from another, to savor the pleasure of precision.

You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?

there is no thought control—or I'd certainly have put it to use before this. Trying to shape, or respond to, what every idiot on the street believes—on the basis of little logic and less information—would only serve to drive you mad.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei

There are many men like this; they can form a plausible theory and grasp its logical points, but take it away from them and destroy it utterly before their eyes, and they will not so easily lash their tired brains at once to build another theory in place of the one that is ruined.

Even at midnight the city groans in the heat. We have had no rain for quite a while. The traffic sounds below ride the night air in waves of trigonometry, the cosine of a siren, the tangent of a sigh, a system, an axis, a logic to this chaos, yes.

Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wastelands to the spirit.

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

Gli uomini sono sempre pronti a morire per noi, ma non a renderci più facile la vita: sentimentalismo di bassa lega e scarso senso logico.

I'm still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books.

Facts are stupid things.

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

Why did the fire not consume me? Why is suffering so arbitrary? If God exists, He is surely cruel. He is the old and terrible God of Moses, the God of Abraham. But the most logical conclusion is that He does not exist at all.

God and the world are not two things to be added together. Neither are they two things that are 'really' one thing. They exist in an asymmetrical relation in which one depends wholly on the other, yet is fully itself, made to be and to act according to its own logic and structure.

Nesta época de esplendor da ópera, o público exige, principalmente, a excelência da voz e aceita todos os disparates, até mesmo os que contrariem a lógica mais elementar.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Wir werden einen Satz wie Die Welt ist die Selbstverwirklichung Gottes nicht widerlegen, indem wir etwa zu beweisen versuchen: Die Welt ist nicht die Selbstverwirklichung Gottes. Damit würden wir, wo die Metaphysiker den Bock melken, das Sieb unterhalten.