Quotes About Logic

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Let reason govern desire.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

You have to play the logic of a character.