Quotes About Logic

Children don't read to find their identity. They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology. They detest sociology…. They still believe in good, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation and other such obsolete stuff.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I feign no hypotheses", "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses")

I can calculate the motion of heavily bodies , but not the madness of people.

among the STs, the introverts (IST) organize the facts and principles related to a situation;

A basic difference in judgment arises from the existence of two distinct and sharply contrasting ways of coming to conclusions. One way is by the use of thinking, that is, by a logical process, aimed at an impersonal finding. The other is by feeling, that is, by appreciation—equally reasonable in its fashion—bestowing on things a personal, subjective value.

The next most important preference is TF, which determines the kind of judgment that is easier and more agreeable to use. People who prefer thinking are more skillful in handling matters that deal with inanimate objects, machinery, principles, or theories—none of which have any inconsistent and unpredictable feelings and all of which can be handled logically.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate, or liable to exceptions. This rule we must follow, that the argument of induction may not be evaded by hypotheses.

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. (Terence sent me this quote the other day. A good battle cry, I believe... and one I wholeheartedly respect.)

Here in Turin you can write because past and future have greater prominence than the present, the force of past history and the anticipation of the future give a concreteness and sense to the discrete, ordered images of today. Turin is a city which entices the reader towards vigour, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way toward madness.

Haces bien en estar celoso. Pero tú pretendes someter los celos a la razón. –Claro: así los hago más eficaces. –Tú razonas demasiado. ¿Por qué se razona con el amor? –Para amarte más. Cualquier cosa, si se hace razonando, aumenta su poder.

Kim ise ö?renci, en büyük arzusu nedenlerle sonuçlar? belli bir mant??a, kesinli?e oturtmak, ne var ki zihnine her an yan?tlanmam?? sorular ü?ü?üyor.

La mia ricerca dell'esattezza si biforca in due direzioni. Da una parte la riduzione degli avvenimenti contingenti a schemi astratti con cui si possano compiere operazioni e dimostrare teoremi; e dall'altra parte lo sforzo delle parole per render conto con la maggior precisione possibile dell'aspetto sensibile delle cose.

Fai bene a esser geloso. Ma tu pretendi di sottomettere la gelosia alla ragione. - Certo: così la rendo più efficace. - Tu ragioni troppo. Perché mai l'amore va ragionato? - Per amarti di più. Ogni cosa, a farla ragionando, aumenta il suo potere. - Vivi sugli alberi e hai la mentalità di un notaio con la gotta. - Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice.

Calabrian storytelling exhibits a rich, colorful, complex imagination, but within it the logic of the plot is often lost, leaving only the unraveling of the enchantment.

You reason too much. Why in the world should love be reasoned?" "To love you you more. Everything increases its power if you do it by reasoning." "You live in the trees and you have the mentality of a lawyer with gout." "The boldest enterprises should be experienced with the simplest heart.

It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve.

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.

If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Natural

An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion...What is to-day a matter of academic speculation, begins to-morrow to move armies and pull down empires.

But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;