Quotes About Logic

What's beyond logic happens beneath will; nor can these moments be translated: i say that even after April by God there is no excuse for May

if fallacious reasoning always led to absurd conclusions, it would be found out at once and corrected. But once an easy, shortcut mode of reasoning has led to a few correct results, almost everybody accepts it; those who try to warn against it are not listened to.

something which is absurd or logically contradictory, but which appears at first glance to be the result of sound reasoning.

by some obscure process of logic, she felt that her momentary burst of generosity had justified all previous extravagances, and excused any in which she might subsequently indulge.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

I should imagine, that the influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as it is commonly believed.

where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Nothing universal can be rationally affirmed on any moral or any political subject. Pure metaphysical abstraction does not belong to these matters. The lines of morality are not like the ideal lines of mathematics. They are broad and deep as well as long. They admit of exceptions; they demand modifications. These exceptions and modifications are not made by the process of logic, but by the rules of prudence.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way the ability to think of an alternative explanation is by far the best way of destroying the arrogance of an apparently logical line of argument.

No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly defined by the programmer. In

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There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions.

one by inflaming their passions, the other by extinguishing their reason

A future where people worked together and utilized science and reason and logic to try and solve problems, instead of just blowing things up.

The specific difference between sf and other estranging genres, such as fantasy, is that sf's displacements must be logically consistent and methodical; in fact, they must be scientific to the extent that they imitate, reinforce and illuminate the process of scientific cognition.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.