Quotes About Logic

The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

Nothing is so logical and nothing appears so absurd as the ocean.

The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light.

Kata-kata keras dan pedas menunjukkan alasan yang lemah.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

Errors make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic;

With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.

But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.

En la noche hay lo absoluto; en las tinieblas lo múltiple. La gramática, esta lógica no admite singular para las tinieblas, la noche es una, las tinieblas son varias.

You don't reason with men like Hitler.

You don't reason with men like Hitler.

J.R.R. Tolkien, had it right in the lecture he gave just after he published The Hobbit. "Fantasy," he said in 1939, talking about fantastical prose fiction, "is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F.

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

Time-travel is possible, but no person will ever manage to kill his past self. Godel laughed his laugh then, and concluded, The a priori is greatly neglected. Logic is very powerful.

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

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

The head can't long act the part of the heart.

History would not be what it is, the record of man's crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.

Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.