Quotes About Logic

I processi politici sono sempre vane formalità, perché le passioni che fanno accusare fanno anche condannare. Tale è la tremenda logica delle rivoluzioni.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain.

Nothing inspires a man like a solid argument

La terreur est une chose si peu raisonnée qu'elle s'excite ou se calme sans motifs plausibles.

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

we limit ourselves to normal cases of mutual influence, we find that those people are most capable of being influenced who are most amenable to reason and logic, those whose social feeling has been least distorted. On the contrary, those who thirst for superiority and desire domination are very difficult to influence. Observation teaches us this fact every day.

Any proposition containing the word is creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

Lightning, like love, is never ruled by logic.

It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.

the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so.

But the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so.

The madness with which suffering was dispersed in the world defied logic.

It is for this reason that

The idea that I caused his death by telling my parents I was a lesbian is perhaps illogical. Causality implies connection, contact of some kind. And however convincing they might be, you can't lay hands on a fictional character.

The human brain works partly on instinct and partly on deduction.

In the past, whenever my logic and my instincts were in conflict, I would back my logic. Today, I back my instincts every time. Why? Because I know that my instinctive brain is many times more intelligent than my conscious brain.

The purely rational economic man is, indeed, close to being a social moron.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

It didn't make any logical sense for her to be worried, although Ig knew that worry and logic rarely traveled together.

She had all his savage powers of logic. It made a person feel naive and childish for imagining there could be any good in the world at all.