Quotes About Logic

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is uttering not a paradox but a truism.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Aumentar los impuestos antes de generar prosperidad es como poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

Hey, take it easy, lover boy. Sex and mathematics don't mix. Or hadn't you heard?

Aku lebih mempercayai ilmu pengetahuan, akal. Setidak-tidaknya padanya ada kepastian-kepastian yang bisa dipegang.

I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, "What truly is logic? Who decides reason?" My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional -- and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found

Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense.

Better to be without dialectic rather than without thinking.

Paralogism is rarely a good strategy for the effective leadership.

Reasoning doesn't revamp consciousness

PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

All is Number

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Number rules the universe.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

Rarely was Arabic used for physics, chemistry, or mathematics in any of the schools of Beirut, whose main curriculum has always been community conformity. It seems that Arabic is not considered a language for logic. A joke that used to make the rounds when I was a child, probably still going strong: the definition of parallel lines in geometry textbooks in Saudi Arabia is two straight lines that never meet unless God in all His glory wills it.

In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

Yes, this is the logic of the Nation. And it will never heed the voice of truth and goodness. It will go on in its ring-dance of moral corruption, linking steel unto steel, and machine unto machine; trampling under its tread all the sweet flowers of simple faith and the living ideals of man.