Quotes About Logic

dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them.

La vida no es siempre logica

Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.

you can't have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.

In our reflecting and reasoning age, a man is not worth much who cannot give a good reason for everything, no matter how bad or crazy. Everything in the world that has been done wrong, has been done wrong for the very best of reasons.

My dialectical method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite.

This is what distinguishes the philosopher from the Christian. The Christian, in spite of logic, has only one incarnation of the Logos; the philosopher has never finished with incarnations.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.