Quotes About Logic

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

How is always less important than why.

MATHEMATICIAN

You could make yourself a little crazy, even certifiable, if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable.

the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Fear and logic belong together.

All night the dreamer travels in this region and doesn't realize he's asleep. The differences between the logic of that world and the logic of this waking one are vast. But they feel the same. And isn't that how we recognize logic, by the way it feels?

This was a cruel trick of the mind, yes, but Teddy had long ago accepted the logic of it—waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without a history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present. What

You felt it in your soul, no place else. You felt the truth there sometimes—beyond logic—and you were usually right if it was a type of truth that was the exact kind you didn't want to face, weren't sure you could. That's what you tried to ignore, why you went to psychiatrists and spent too long in bars and numbed your brain in front of TV tubes—to hide from hard, ugly truths your soul recognized long before your mind caught up.

Very often the reason that people reach faulty conclusions is not their inability to reason; it is that they reason from faulty premises.

Don't raise your voice- improve your argument.

Jealousy had nothing to do with logic.

It is for this reason that a scientist constructs hypotheses—suggestions for the cause of an observation. But a hypothesis must never be confused with an explanation—with proof.

If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do.

Besides, what would you do with the body, if you killed him? the logical side of my mind inquired. He wouldn't fit in the cupboard, let alone the hidey-hole.

Now, me lord, you know you oughtn't talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his lordship, sir," he said apologetically to Jones. "His father—theduke, you know—had him schooled in logic. He can't really help it, like." Spoken by a most loyal valet, Tom Bryd, in defense of the inherit workings of the mind of his employer, Lord John Grey

If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do." She

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

He loved florid verbiage and jaw-jaw until he cuts himself on Occam's razor.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.