Quotes About Logic

Logic is trying to trick my mind into believing that what my heart is saying, is a lie ~ That's why I'll scream it loud and clear, Your heart knows what your mind won't always hear.

forgiven for being alive, for being in the world. For the arrogance and the futility of remaining alive, the ridiculousness of it, the stench of it, the unreasonableness of it. That's your feeling, she added, your internal logic. You've just explained that to me.

Treba ostati logi?an, jer bilo kako bilo, logika nikada nije nepouzdan vodi?. Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam, ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo.

Svi su se složili kako mi se nešto poremetilo u mozgu i kako sa mnom ne stoji baš najbolje ni najnormalnije bit ?e da sam poludio, kad sam prestao misliti njihovom logikom.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

Common sense has no place in first love and never has.

So he said it now, a true sentence for a false reason.

A morte, assim como o crime, é lugar-comum. (...)Por outro lado, a lógica é rara. Portanto, manter uma atitude mental lógica, especialmente quando enfrentamos a mortalidade, pode ser difícil. No entanto, é sempre na lógica, e não na morte, que devemos nos pautar.

Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.

What you don't know, boy, is that people have feelings that don't obey logic... Once you know true love, how could you settle for anything less?

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.

Platon, Devlet'inde ak?lca ve ruhça zay?f olanlara tart??may? yasak etmiÅŸtir. DoÄŸru dürüst ad?m at?p yürümesini bilmeyen bir insanla gerçeÄŸi aramaya ç?kman?n anlam? var m??

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne

The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.

As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.

The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.

Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There

conceiving the reader as conversing with the author, as talking back. After he has said, "I understand but I disagree," he can make the following remarks to the author: (1) "You are uninformed"; (2) "You are misinformed"; (3) "You are illogical—your reasoning is not cogent"; (4) "Your analysis is incomplete.

His propositions are nothing but expressions of personal opinion unless they are supported by reasons.

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

To get technical for a moment, we may say that these rules have a grammatical and a logical aspect. The grammatical aspect is the one that deals with words. The logical step deals with their meanings or, more precisely, with terms. So far as communication is concerned, both steps are indispensable. If language is used without thought, nothing is being communicated. And thought or knowledge cannot be communicated without language. As

RULE 11, therefore, can be stated as follows: RESPECT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND MERE PERSONAL OPINION BY GIVING REASONS FOR ANY CRITICAL JUDGMENT YOU MAKE.

If you have not been able to show that the author is uninformed, misinformed, or illogical on relevant matters, you simply cannot disagree. You must agree. You cannot say, as so many students and others do, "I find nothing wrong with your premises, and no errors in reasoning, but I don't agree with your conclusions." All you can possibly mean by saying something like that is that you do not like the conclusions. You

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.