Quotes About Logic

My mind can always separate the two. Even when I am very upset, I keep reviewing the facts over and over until I can come to a logical conclusion.

Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.

There are no good answers to bad questions,

In all my lives, the only thing I've seen save people from themselves is hope. Hope beyond logic. Hope beyond what the eye can see. Filled with hope, the human spirit is an insatiable force of energy, transcending biology to embrace something eternal. Without hope, the spirit dies and nothing awaits but death.

Gan : You're never involved, are you Avon? Have you ever cared for anyone? Vila : ...Except yourself? Avon : I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it - *at all*. [exits] - Blake's 7

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

The warrior knows that the world is not what it appears to be, and therefore does not make the mistake of assuming anything to be merely a logical necessity.

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world

The very wish to be right, down to its subtlest form of logical reflection, is an expression of the spirit of self-preservation which philosophy is precisely concerned to break down.

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

The task of thought is to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

A man who lacks reason cheats himself repeatedly.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.

the intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done, viz. prudence,

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

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason.

God the Son, by being truly human without ceasing to be truly God, is both equal to the Father and less than the Father—equal by nature and less by volition to service. By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.