Quotes About Logic

When faced with the illogical, one must expand the sphere of logic to include rules of logic for that which is not logic. This is the only possibility in a world that works according to the rules of rationality.

Sein halbes Leben hatte Gerhard an dem Widerspruch zwischen Denken und Handeln gelitten. Er hatte sich als Intellektueller gefühlt und versucht, darin eine Auszeichnung zu sehen, die für andauerndes Scheitern entschädigte. Insgeheim war ihm schon lange klar gewesen, dass der Satz "Der Klügere gibt nach" eine Falle darstellte und dass es sich beim Zusatz "bis er der Dumme ist" nicht um einen Witz, sondern um eine logische Konsequenz handelte.

As he once told her, "a long closely connected train of reasoning is like a beautiful strain of music.")

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

aquella frase de Pascal de que el corazón tiene razones que la razón no entiende.

Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the largest number that most people could visually appreciate. Put seven dots on a page, and most people can take a quick glance and declare, "Seven." Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.

What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

Common sense is not so common.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.

Since God created man with certain unalienable rights, and man, in turn, created government to help secure and safeguard those rights, it follows that man is superior to the creature which he created. Man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around. Even the non-believer can appreciate the logic of this relationship.

I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.

Juggernaut: All right. Get the Doc to work -- now. Before I change my mind. Deadpool: Wow. Whaddaya know? LOGIC stops the Juggernaut!

La guerra suele poner en evidencia de manera brutal la sinrazón del sentido común.

The other crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from 'heart of Empire' to 'occupied colony'. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and colonized. This dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony. And, as Deighton successfully demonstrated, this logic can be founded in an alternative English history.

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.