Quotes About Logic

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Nuk luftohet nje fatalitet, e te arsyetosh per te eshte akoma me e kote

The events were always hidden behind a veil drawn by an unknown power, and seemed to come from the realm of destiny. It was this that upset the everyday equilibrium, logic and the order of things.

Things should make sense, and half the time they don't. Stuff that shouldn't make sense, half the time does.

The heart and the brain don't always mesh, do they? I know your heart, darling Eve, but your brain still has some mysterious corners.

For, seen from the outside, from a being who is alien to it, reason is simply a vast tautology.

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

Por supuesto, la razón validará a la razón como principio rector del universo. ¿Qué otra cosa iba a hacer? ¿Destronarse a sí misma?

la razón no es más que una enorme tautología.

Slackers were not well dressed, because there was no reason to dress smartly. Their uniform was old jeans, Converse trainers and warm, practical lumberjack shirts. They were not career-minded, for there was no reason to pursue the corporate dream. They were seen largely as apathetic, but it was an apathy born of a logical assessment of the options rather than innate laziness.

We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis.