Quotes About Logic

People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?

Therefore, mathematically...there was no chance at all that [she] could have existed. A zero in ten-to-the-power-of-forever chance. And yet there she was, in front of me, and I was quite taken aback by it all; I really was. Suddenly it made me realise why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations. It makes you do stupid things – things that defy all logic. The opting for anguish over calm, for mortality over eternity, and for Earth over home.

But recently, now, I was starting to feel that you couldn't do mathematics with emotions. In protecting yourself from hurt you could create a new, subtler type of pain.

Los números primos vuelven a la gente loca, pero literalmente

Yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation.

Oh, what? You're too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that's logical

A science without philosophy would literally not know what it was talking about. A philosophy without methodological exploration of phenomena would end up with nothing but formal truths, which is to say, errors.

Everything is science and everything is philosophy.

The possible is the openness of the perceived world and not a system of logical Being in which we would be set up through idealization.

In a body activity like language, there is a blind logic, laws of equilibrium that are observed by the community of speaking subjects without any of them being conscious of it.

The unconscious is a perceiving consciousness... it operates as such through a logic of implication or promiscuity,

In principle, the logician is only familiar with thetic consciousness.

The phenomenal layer is, literally, pre-logical and will always remain so.

You might be an intelligent person, but once you let someone else filter the world for you, you have no way to critically analyze what you're hearing. At best, absolute best case scenario, if they blatantly contradict themselves, you can spot that. But if they take basic care to maintain an internal logical consistency, which they all do, you've got nothing. You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

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

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

My best inorganic friend is science!

No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!