Quotes About Logic

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going

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

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.