Quotes About Logic

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

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

Reasons come first. Answers come second

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.