Quotes About Logic

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

it is impossible to come to a sensible conclusion about anything when one is very tired

This is the essence of the thought experiment. Suppose this happens. What happens next? What would that necessitate? And then? And then? And then what implications would arise? And so on.

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

Crazy people don't need an explanayshun for nothing.

Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What's more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Las emociones, por definición, no son razonables.

Name the nine prime fallacies," he snapped. "Simplification. Generalization. Circularity. Reduction. Analogy. False causality. Semantism. Irrelevancy….

I don't doubt the process started sensibly.

I never knew whether his speedy speech patterns reflected amphetamine use or an amphetamine mind. He would often lead me up blind alleys or through an endless labyrinth of incomprehensible logic. I felt like Alice with the Mad Hatter, negotiating jokes without punch lines, and having to retrace my steps on the chessboard floor back to the logic of my own peculiar universe.

I felt like Alice with the Mad Hatter, negotiating jokes without punch lines, and having to retrace my steps on the chessboard floor back to the logic of my own peculiar universe.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

Humans are irrational creatures. Many of our decisions are not based on a logical thought process. Our "Reptilian Brain" has an abundance of cognitive biases that prevent us from making choices based on pure logic. Society's perception of the utility of psychedelics is a case in point. Considering the documented history, the scientific findings, and the anecdotal reports, it's obvious that we as a society are not thinking logically about their use.

Asking people to feel as much empathy for an enemy as for their own child is like asking them to feel as much hunger for a dog turd as for an apple—it's logically possible, but it doesn't reflect the normal functioning of the human mind.

the INTP is more likely to be drawn to programming (to be able to use his or her auxiliary function, Intuition, to learn about new programs and creative ways to use the system).

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

The conclusion is that the original assumption of ordering leads us into contradiction, and so that assumption must be false.

I brought you eyewitness reports about Jesus' healings and the phenomenon of raising the dead, and you only opened your bag of logical tricks and came up with some threadbare explanation which was far more fantastic than the event it was supposed to explain.