Quotes About Logic

Unless indoctrinated, a child is too logical to understand discrimination.

La explotación del hombre por el hombre y la lógica del máximo beneficio, antes consideradas una abominación, volvían a ser en todas partes las bases de la libertad y la democracia.

they had an ability to classify, a logical lucidity, that Professor Galiani didn't possess.

I couldn't help thinking it was wasteful for people with such good logic skills to spend so many years and so much energy learning to reconcile an old book with the way things were now. Couldn't a person just write a new book?

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes.

Artificial and forced, instruments themselves of repression, the borders were their obstacle, having wiped away what was best about the Arab world. They hewed to no certain logic; a glimpse at any map suggests as much. The lines are too straight

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

you must use arguments to explain how you arrived at your conclusion. That is how you will convince others: by offering the reasons and evidence that convinced you. It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

No matter how well you argue from premises to conclusion, your conclusion will be weak if your premises are weak.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . .

Second, the purpose must be defined precisely, and not in a fashion that smuggles in the answer to the question before the decision-maker.

asyndeton (absence of conjunction) is normally equivalent to syndeton (use of the conjunction and).

El hombre es por natura la bestia paradójica, un animal absurdo que necesita lógica.

He's suffering from Politician's Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

He who wins an argument with the woman through his logical statement loses her.

Simple and plain to say 'NO BRAIN, NO PAIN'

Manmohan Desai's cinema wasn't about logic. It was about exuberance, vitality and above all, entertainment.

Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!

when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!