Quotes About Logic

Who knows what the Ousters will do?" he said. "They no longer appear to be motivated by human logic." Martin Silenus laughed loudly, spilling his wine as he gestured. "As if we fucking humans were ever motivated by human logic!

Occam's Razor: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually the correct one. —William of Occam, fourteenth century Darwin's Blade: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity. —Darwin Minor, twenty-first century

You had a corollary to Occam's Razor," persisted Syd. "I think it went—'All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity.

Learning to address concerns methodically, with reference to logic and empirical evidence, is one of the most useful things an anxious person can do.

The emotional mind takes its beliefs to be absolutely true, and so discounts any evidence to the contrary. That is why it is so hard to reason with someone who is emotionally upset: no matter the soundness of your argument from a logical point of view, it carries no weight if it is out of keeping with the emotional conviction of the moment.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant," Albert Einstein

complexity—to reason—plummeted.

Según Damasio, para tomar una buena decisión tenemos que aplicar sentimientos a los pensamientos

Everything happens for a reason.

The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead.

Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To convince a man, you must appeal to his self-interest, his desires, his will.

If you wish to converse with me," said Voltaire, "define your terms." How many a debate would have been deflated into a paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms! This is the alpha and omega of logic, the heart and soul of it, that every important term in serious discourse shall be subjected to strictest scrutiny and definition. It is difficult, and ruthlessly tests the mind; but once done it is half of any task.

It is not merely probable, it is certain that we shall never find a straight line that is not the shortest distance between two points.

If perceptions wove themselves automatically into ordered thought, if mind were not an active effort hammering out order from chaos, how could the same experience leave one man mediocre, and in a more active and tireless soul be raised to the light of wisdom and the beautiful logic of truth?

Society is a growth in time, not a syllogism in logic; and when the past is put out through the door it comes in at the window.

Passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead. Thought should not lack the heat of desire, nor desire the light of thought.