Quotes About Logic

Marrying for love was not forbidden; it just didn't make any sense.

Simply put: the easiest and most likely explanation, however mundane, is probably correct.

Rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic. And it harnesses the most powerful of social forces, argument.

Patriotism was a great thing but it worked best when it was tempered by common sense.

The strategy of power has long seemed founded on the apathy of the masses. The more passive they were, the more secure it was. But this logic is only characteristic of the bureaucratic and centralist phase of power. And it is this which today turns against it: the inertia it has fostered becomes the sign of its death.

One of the two adversaries is a rug salesman, the other an arms salesman: they have neither the same logic nor the same strategy, even though they are both crooks. There is not enough communication between them to enable them to make war upon each other.

Tautology, being the most vulgar logical expression, is always the strongest argument.

It's a simple matter of mathematics.

Formal logic, or logistics, is simply the axiomatics of states of equilibrium of thought, and the positive science corresponding to this axiomatics is none other than the psychology of thought.

for example, to see whether in the developing subject, i.e. the child, integers are directly constructed starting from class logic by biunivocal correspondence and the construction of a "class of equivalent classes" as Frege and B. Russell thought, or whether the construction is more complex and presupposes the concept of order.

Thus arises the second tendency, which consists in regarding logical and mathematical relations as irreducible, and in making an analysis of the higher intellectual functions depend on an analysis of them. But it is questionable whether logic, regarded as something eluding the attempts of experimental psychology to explain it, can in its turn legitimately explain anything in psychological experience.

Si c'est la raison qui fait l'homme, c'est le sentiment qui le conduit.

I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.

This then is the age of reason.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.