Quotes About Logic

The fact that 'goto' can do anything is exactly why we don't use it.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

Le cÅ"ur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.

There is nothing so consistent with reason as this denial of reason.

All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality

All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.

O coração tem razões que a Razão desconhece.

Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, for they would understand at first sight, and are not used to seek for principles. And others, on the contrary, who are accustomed to reason from principles, do not at all understand matters of feeling, seeking principles, and being unable to see at a glance.

Descartes useless and unnecessary.

Civil war in man between reason and passions. If there were only reason without passions. If there were only passions without reason. But since he has both he cannot be free from war, for he can only be at peace with the one if he is at war with the other.

167] Submission and use of reason; that is what makes true Christianity.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

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When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.

Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.