Quotes About Logic

The Constitution is like a "No Guns Zone" sign for conservatives, in that the only people it would bind are those who are already generally honest and peaceable. The ones who would lie or commit harm would simply look at the piece of paper and scoff. With unrelenting logic, Spooner dissects the sanctity of the Constitution and demonstrates that it cannot be said to have moral authority over anyone.

Where reason fails and logic stumbles, myth waits to open paths of imagination and understanding.

Her work was indeed elliptical, she left out everything that was essential, including logic and meaning. Her words neither described nor observed things. They were just words scattered across the page. This was braininess of the highest order, the verbal equivalent of the white canvas passed off as a painting; so abstract that to have expected some sense from it would have insulted the artist.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Mark, she now could see, was destined for a life of absolute logic [...], while she, the Etch a Sketcher, thought herself destined for a life of squiggly lines.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.

Rationality is the application of reason to form beliefs based on facts and evidence, instead of guesswork, opinions, and feelings. That is to say, the rational thinker wants to know what is really true and not just what he or she would like to be true.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

The ultimate problem of utopian logic begins with a utilitarian calculus in which everyone will live in perfect harmony once we get rid of any dissenters who don't see as clearly as the collective.

as the Rutgers University legal scholar Gary Francione has done in his 2008 book Animals as Persons, where he outlined in logical detail why sentient nonhumans should legally be regarded as persons: "They are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.

Burden of Proof, or, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

These were all tragic misconceptions—factual errors that, had they been checked against reality, would have come up short. Nevertheless, they were sincerely believed; thus extermination had a kind of inescapable internal logic to it, however grotesque.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic

Fizikçilerin atomlardan olu?an ?eylerin iç derinliklerinde bulduklar? o yeni ve garip dünya, Cartes ve Marco Polo'nun ayak basm?? oldu?u yerlerden çok daha büyüleyiciydi. Bu denli heyecan uyand?rmas?n?n nedeni bu yeni dünyayla ilgili her ?eyin geçerli mant?k ve sa?duyuya ters dü?mesiydi.

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

Human nature never changes. Therefore, the stock market never changes. Only the faces, the pockets, the suckers, and the manipulators, the wars, the disasters and the technologies change. The market itself never changes. How can it? Human nature never changes, and human nature runs the market—not reason, not economics, and certainly not logic. It is our human emotions that drive the market, as they do most other things on this planet. —Jesse Livermore (1940)

As scientists and other logically minded people often point out, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

Capitalism is neither a person nor an institution. It neither wills nor chooses. It is a logic at work through a mode of production: a blind, obstinate logic of accumulation.

using the same logic it uses to determine racist and other extremist groups: the FRC promotes defamation and promulgates known falsehoods.

El hombre, dicen, es un animal racional. No sé por qué no se haya dicho que es un animal afectivo o sentimental. Y acaso lo que de los demás animales le diferencia sea más el sentimiento que no la razón. Más veces he visto razonar a un gato que no reír o llorar. Acaso llore o ría por dentro, pero por dentro acaso también el cangrejo resuelva ecuaciones de segundo grado

When people experience strong emotion, they can't hear logic.