Quotes About Logic

Reason is not automatic, those who deny it cannot be conquered by it

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists' game

Nothing on earth or beyond it is closed to the power of man's reason.

The Massachusetts elite had read everything in sight, some of it too closely. As would be said of logic-loving Ipswich minister John Wise, those men were not so much the masters as the victims of learning. They had read and reread bushels of witchcraft texts. They parsed legal code. They knew their history. They worked in the sterling name of reason.

His enemies, insisted Adams, came in handy: "Our friends are either blind to our faults or not faithful enough to tell us of them." He knew that we are governed more by our feelings than by reason; with rigorous logic, he lunged at the emotions. He made a passion of decency. He was a prudent revolutionary. Among the last of his surviving words is a warning to Thomas Paine: "Happy is he who is cautious.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?

And then there were the imaginary dragons, and the a-, anti- and minus- dragons (colloquially termed nots, noughts and oughtn'ts by the experts), the minuses being the most interesting on account of the well-known dracological paradox: when two minuses hypercontiguate (an operation in the algebra of dragons corresponding roughly to simple multiplication), the product is 0.6 dragon, a real nonplusser.

Il comportamento logico ci abbandona molto prima che la vita stessa e non è cosa rara che l'uomo si comporti senza senso.

Temu, kto szukaj?c przyczyny, nie godzi si? z ?adn? hipotez? rozmys?u, ani w jej postaci opatrzno?ciowej, ani diabelskiej, pozostaje tylko racjonalny surogat demonologii – statystyka.

Los políticos son demasiado tontos para que nosotros podamos prever sus acciones aplicando la razón

Postmodernism is the Enlightenment gone mad.

Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.

We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.

As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn't worth a grain of good hard fact.

The triumph of my logic gives me no pleasure.

I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.

The next sentence is false. The previous sentence is true. I'll wait while your heads explode.

Because is a word used by ordered, order-loving beings about a world which they like to think is ordered. Because is for storybooks. This is... Well, I know this is difficult to understand, but what we see here is becauselessness itself.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.