Quotes About Logic

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

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

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

if you give people the reasons to reason and you don't reason, reason!

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Love" is a brilliant defying logic that thrives on human weaknesses!