Quotes About Logic

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up against the creative process - and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.

Directing seems like a logical progression for me, although I would never put myself in a film of mine. How can you? Putting on make-up while you're trying to concentrate on setting up the next shot? No, no.

I'm a puzzle doer.

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Memory is capricious. I can look back and see decadence, old bigots, the constant racial slurs, the bores, the wild cards, the bighearted, the family album of alcoholics, the saints, the old aunt propped in a chair saying only da-da, the slow-motion suicides, but at four, six, ten, they loomed, powerful, not as types but as themselves. Among them, logic takes wing. (pg. 31)

Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

The real universe is always one step behind logic.

But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense, But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.