Quotes About Logic

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Good intentions were not enough; they had to be rationally implemented.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.

we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.

Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.

The greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference between words and things, has been most strenuously insisted on by him (cp. Rep.; Polit.; Cratyl), although he has not always avoided the confusion of them in his own writings (e.g. Rep.).

If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes

SOCRATES: This, in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher might do. In just this way, our two speeches placed all [266] mental derangements into one common kind.

La filosofía es la geometría de las ideas

Having grasped this principle, it reverses itself and, keeping hold of what follow from it, comes down to a conclusion, making no use of anything visible at all, but only of forms themselves, moving on through forms to forms, and ending in forms.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.