Quotes About Logic

there's nothing more important than making a faith reasonable

But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.

Religion was by and large constructed by men, and I had yet to find a man who was logical. Deconstructing religious rules would definitely be a journey into madness.

Religion was by and large constructed by men, and I had yet to find a man who was logical.

for some people, laziness could beat out common sense any day.

K]nowing how primitive in many aspects, now little abstract, how uncontaminated by logic and logical structure Hebrew is, it would surely have occured to me to ask, is not aspect wherever and whenever it occurs a thing more primitive, more psychologically fundamental than time order, than tense? Was there not a time in the development of language when primitive man focussed his attention not on time order but on something else expressed by aspect, and what is that something?

Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains.

Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.

Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.

The difference is minding. I mind the resultant moral dilemma of having no answers. I never forget the fucking questions. They're always there, accusing me of having no answers yet. If there are no answers there is no point: a terror of absurdity. Logic will force me to do things where desire hasn't a chance.

from a contradiction you may deduce everything

we are the product of this universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in us. Just as our genes carry the memory of our biological ancestors, our logic carries the memory of our cosmological ancestry. We are not just imposing human-centric notions on a cosmos independent of us. We are progeny of this cosmos and our ability to understand it is an inheritance.

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

The common saying about cryptologists, as William phrased it, was that "it is not necessary" to be insane, "but it helps.

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' That's Spock in Star Trek VI, but he's paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.

I think we have to consider every possibility. 'When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Any belief that cannot be defended by logic, proof or evidence is protected by hurt feelings and if needed expressed by violence.

People believe what they want to believe, and that's why it's only logical-and so easy-that everything should have its time to be believed

Say what's in it for the boss. Explain how having a conversation is in your boss's interest: "I want to make this initiative a great success. To do that I need a little more help in making sure I understand the logic well enough to execute effectively." Of course for this approach to work, you have to be open to learning.

The solution to pollution is dilution. It is very logical that if a chemical is bothering you, you should increase the flow of good air to dilute the level of the chemical.

Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.