Quotes About Logic

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that's basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Il buon senso è che in ogni cosa vi è un senso determinabile; il paradosso è due sensi nello stesso tempo

I like rules that make sense, not rules without logic.

Me gustan las reglas que tienen sentido, no las reglas sin lógica

gosto de regras que fazem sentido, não de regras sem lógica.

I am not religious. I cannot conceive of gods who would give a damn about humanity's frothy carryings-on. I mean, logically, beings of that order just wouldn't.

First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.

Does Logic deal with things, or is it a science of words? And the answer one gives to these questions has such far reaching implications that it controls every detail of the resulting system of philosophy.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

I do not begin with concepts and put them together to form a thought or judgement; I come by the parts of a thought by analysing the thought.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they?

There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched.

Egyptologic"—i.e. that special form of reasoning, with a built-in double standard, deployed only by Egyptologists.

failure of logic in which absence of evidence, which was one thing, was in fact being treated as evidence of absence – which was quite another.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

the creational monotheism of the Bible and of the church seems to logically require something like a prehistoric fall, regardless of how we interpret the Chaoskampf material of the Old Testament. Assuming that there is one eternal Creator God who is all-good and all-powerful, it is illogical to posit a foundational structural evil within the cosmos (which

expresses how the Creator solves the problems he needs to solve in order to bring creation out of chaos. Therefore, we have every reason to suppose that the succession of days was not meant to refer to a chronological succession but to a logical, thematic, and literary succession. In

Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of cause and effect? And the answer would have been no.

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.