Quotes About Logic

Problem with trying to be rational all the time is the other fellow ain't always concerned with how logical your argument is.

Populist politics only appeals to intuitive logic, because that which is intuitive can be comprehended by the masses.

His body jerked as it trembled, and she recognized the nerves overtaking passion. The uncontrollable shaking came when a sub felt his true vulnerability to a Mistress's will for the first time, an anxiety that came with relinquishing control to someone by some compulsion that defied issues of logic, strength or bindings.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter.

I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.

Faith is not the work of reason, and therefore cannot succumb to its attack, because faith arises just as little from reason as tasting and seeing do.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

It is a natural human instinct to turn our fears into symbols, and destroy the symbols, in the hope that it will destroy the fear. It is a logic that keeps recurring throughout human history, from the Crusades to the witch hunts to the present day.

Prohibition, Bourgois explains in his writing, creates a system in which the most insane and sadistic violence has a sane and functional logic. It is required. It is rewarded.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

For what [Aristotle] had done was to gather together all the knowledge of his time. He wrote about the natural sciences – the stars, animals and plants; about history and people living together in a state – what we call politics; about the right way to reason – logic; and the right way to behave – ethics.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.