Quotes About Logic

emerges from logic, not desire.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.

I love the idea of Pro Tools, but it doesn't seem as attractive to me in terms of the music-making side. It's great for recording, but with Logic you get the best of both worlds, the ability to do great tracking and producing something that sounds great as well.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

If you're not worried, you're not reasonable.

Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is, by all common sense and elementary school logic, their land.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

There is a simple rule that resolves all possible time travel paradoxes.83 Here it is: • Paradoxes do not happen.

Correlation does not imply causation,

certain situations, even the most rationally minded people behave in absurd and illogical ways. Nine times out of ten, a person in possession of a remote control will press the buttons harder if the battery runs low. But a nickel cadmium cell isn't like a lemon, and squeezing it firmly won't produce more juice.

Southern life follows not the rules of logic, but the whims of poetry. The ways of Southern womanhood have always been distinct. After all, nobody's filming Steel Magnolias about the women of North Dakota, and a Ya-Ya Sisterhood has yet to be discovered in Rhode Island.

To put it simply, magic that is controlled by reason is more like a knife than a grenade launcher.

La memoria trabaja con la misma lógica oblicua y rebelde de los sueños. Hurga en los pozos ocultos y de ellos extrae visiones que, a diferencia de las de los sueños, son casi siempre placenteras. La memoria puede, a voluntad de su poseedor, teñirse de nostalgia, y la nostaliga sólo por excepción produce monstruos.