Quotes About Logic

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Men argue nature acts.

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

when you have the reasons, reason!

When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.