Quotes About Logic

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

How advertising is handled has always been a key distinction between low and high order publishing. The higher you stood, the more separate you were from advertising, and, in the logic of snobbery, the greater a premium price the top brands would pay to be in your company.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

Math is pretty straightforward.

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

You don't rejoice despite absurdity, but because of it. Life is absurd so nothing compels you at all. There is no logic and no necessity. You do what you do out of freedom. You are always free to choose.

So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. That's what doesn't make sense. The world always makes sense.

5. No puedes hacer entrar en razón a alguien sobre algo que no ha razonado por sí mismo.

You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

Ludwig Wittgenstein,