Quotes About Logic

A wise man states as true nothing he cannot prove

That's the fallacy. Just because X happens and then Y happens, it doesn't mean that X caused Y.

There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.

The confidence of the postmodern cultural critic is the confidence of a generalizer who excuses himself from many of the usual obligations of erudition. Under this dispensation, a wide variety of disciplines may be addressed and pronounced upon without requiring a detailed familiarity with the facts and logic around which they are organized.

At the higher realms of rationality, even reason can begin to appear irrational.

El propio Spinoza no tuvo ninguna duda sobre la verdad y la certeza de su pensamiento: «No pretendo haber encontrado la mejor filosofía, pero sí sé que pienso la verdadera. Si se me pregunta cómo lo sé, respondo que de la misma manera que se conoce que los tres ángulos de un triángulo suman dos ángulos rectos».

According to the highly emotional logic of BPD, if they do something terrible to you, and you accept it without complaining or becoming upset, that shows that you care about them. But if you respond in the way that most people would, by expressing your anger or displeasure, that means that you don't really have positive feelings for them.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.

I argued that such an approach stood logic on its head. All disasters, all loss, all suffering, demonstrate that there cannot possibly be a God, for why would a deity who is omnipotent create a universe so prone to disaster and accident? Religious faith, I argued, was invented in order to pacify the grieving multitudes and ensure they did not ask the really difficult questions, which if answered, would tend to lead to progress.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Qui ne peut attaquer le raisonnement, attaque le raisonneur.

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

Reason respects the differences, and Imagination the similitudes of things.

tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance

In 'A Scandal in Bohemia', he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.

no era tanto su lógica aplastante como su fe frustrada: no podía perdonarle a Dios que no existiera.

We can look at the whole concept of God and spirituality from a vantage point built on logic and physics. Under such an intensive scientific scrutiny, religion always fails. Our knowledge of quantum cosmology is now sufficiently advanced to eliminate the notion of God altogether. The universe is an entirely natural phenomenon, if extraordinarily complex. It was not created by an external act of will.

He'd learned long ago that logic and facts never meant anything to true believers—of anything.

once you eliminated the impossible, what remained had to be the truth.

Computers aren't smart, just fast. Garbage in, garbage out.

The study of reasons for opinions is at the centre of philosophy.

Bertrand Russell wrote that pure mathematics is the field in which we don't know what we're talking about or to what extent what we say is true or false.