Quotes About Logic

Hasta que puedas comprender lo ilógico y su significatividad, rehúye a los Sufis excepto para servicios limitados, precisos y manifiestos.

Si supiera cuánto es dos más dos, ¡diría que cuatro!

Nada es barato sin una razón.

No hay sabiduría donde no hay sentido común: en estas condiciones no se puede encontrar ninguna expresión.

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

May it please Heaven that the reader, emboldened and become of a sudden momentarily ferocious like what he is reading, may trace in safety his pathway through the desolate morass of these gloomy and poisonous pages. For unless he is able to bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a spiritual tension equal at least to his distrust, the deadly emanations of this book will imbibe his soul as sugar absorbs water.

To philosophize is to think without the benefit of proof (if proof exists, it is no longer philosophy), which is not to say that any thought and all ways of thinking are, philosophically speaking, equally valid.

What good is in dexterity of playing with logic when your weak soul retreats from difficulties?

Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that -- the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death.

Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis")

Never could Mathias give the right answer, but always had he an excuse for being wrong. "I was just a thinkin'," he'd fend himself. "If I hadn't been a thinkin', I wouldn't a thought that way.

Anti-theism presupposes Theism

I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else

The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")

It is difficult to confront madness, because insanity is a stranger to reason and any reasonable response would be insane.

Why the forty five." "Because they don't make a forty six.

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

our days are no different from the past, except in the number of tyrants, their systematic methods and the cold logic with which they lead the world to madness

You can't reason with fear

like it when I hear this process called "montage." It seems to convey the hope that the whole will add up to even more than the sum of its parts. Film is visual music. It's put together with more than logic and announces when it's right. Many a performance can be made or destroyed by what is left in or cut out.

Are you thinking with your head or your dick?" Izaak demanded. "Asking for a friend. Asking because you're a dumbass and—

A man may persuade himself, by the most logical reasoning, that he will greatly benefit his health by swallowing live frogs; and, thus rationally convinced, he may swallow a first frog, then the second; but at the third his stomach will revolt. In the same way, the growing influence of the doctrine on my way of thinking came up against the resistance of my whole nature.

circular logic is explicit in devotional biographies of religious leaders, whose biographers provide readers with various reasons for having the faith they already have in their leaders. Lives of the Saints is a Catholic example, while biographies published by Deseret Book and Bookcraft are Mormon examples.107 That is the circular logic of every world view.

You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are always logical explanations.