Quotes About Logic

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life.that is why our time,being the most intensely technical,is also the emptiest in all human history.

Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Dazzled by the luminosity of logic, she leans back, closing her eyes. She loses herself, she is lost.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Core Mechanics The core mechanics consist of the data and the algorithms that precisely define the game's rules and internal operations.

I am not deliberately avoiding your question, General, only seeking a true answer. You ask if I am educated. Who knows what an edudated man is? My brain has been enriched with the logic of Aristotle, yet I know not how to milk a goat. I am acquaintanted with the science of Euclid, yet I cannot find a well or sail a vessel. I am familiar with Platonic philosophy, but I cannot build anything durable. Obviously I am an ignorant man.

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'.

Gödel saw beyond the surface level of number theory, realizing that numbers could represent any kind of structure.

We may be certain that, by the logic of double-entry accounting, these two percent will reappear in other records than the election statistics, for instance in the registers of penitentiaries and penal labor camps, or in those places where God alone counts the victims.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Brouwer's criticisms of classical mathematics were concerned with what I shall refer to as "the debasement of meaning".

Now numbers are the sole criterion; and numbers are certainly no proof of reason, justice or capacity.

Certamente la rivoluzione va difesa e sviluppata con logica inesorabile; ma non si deve e non si può difenderla con mezzi che contraddicono ai suoi fini. [...] Se per vincere si dovesse elevare la forca nelle piazze, io preferirei perdere.

Certainement, la révolution a à se défendre et à se développer avec une logique inexorable, mais on ne doit, et on ne peut la défendre avec des moyens qui sont en contradiction avec ses fins.

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;' but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

Q.E.D. [Quod erat demonstrandum: Which was to be proved.]