Quotes About Logic

Her türlü yanl??a kar?? en amans?z silah Ak?l'd?r.

Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest.

The existentialists are not irrationalists in the sense that they deny the validity of logical argument and scientific reasoning. They simply question the ability of such reasoning to access the deep personal convictions that guide our lives.

each philosopher realized that life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest. As Kierkegaard remarked, many people have offered proofs for the immortality of the soul, but Socrates, after hypothesizing that the soul might be immortal, risked his life with that possibility in mind.

I confess I know not what a sceptic can answer to this, nor by what good argument he can plead even for a hearing; for either his reasoning is sophistry, and so deserves contempt; or there is no truth in the human faculties, and then why should we reason?

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

There is nothing so absurd which some philosophers have not maintained.

And a man who perfectly understood a just syllogism, without believing that the conclusion follows from the premises, would be a greater monster than a man born without hands or feet.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.

THERE ARE IO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD : THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND BINARY, AND THOSE WHO DON'T.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?

every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.