Quotes About Logic

Ra?iunea practic? este fantezie creatoare pur?.

Sitting rooms make sense. Bedrooms make sense. But why aren't kitchens called food rooms?

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,That was built in such a logical wayIt ran a hundred years to a day?

End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.Logic is logic. That's all I say.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

In the biblical view the issue is not modern versus postmodern. Both these views are partly right, and both are finally wrong. Nor is it rational argument versus story, or reason versus imagination. In fact it is not either-or at all. The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

As Francis Schaeffer pointed out (and his whole apologetics turned on this point), "The more logical a non-Christian is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; and the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions."41 There

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.

To see apologetics only as technique is an insult to the gospel and to the high importance of what God is saying and doing in Jesus. From the humblest pun to the greatest double entendre of all time—the incarnation—the Bible is full of stories, parables, drama, ploys and jests that serve the ultimate purpose of the gospel and are shaped by the truth and logic of the message of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.

The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.

What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.

Please. Fire can't burn underwater." "Think before you speak, young master. Water contains oxygen, doesn't it? Where there's oxygen, there's no reason you can't have fire.