Quotes About Logic

My ancestors kept on breaking their necks searching the ground at their feet for buried treasure, and I too had found what I had sought for so long by gazing above my head and discovering my brothers from outer space who had restored my calm. Why should I be expected, alone among all my fathers and grandfathers, as I sat there on that stake, to submit my fate to the laws of nature and the rules of logic?

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

How could you...? How? Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your lead. ... He is really going through with it. No, She managed. There is no other way.

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart." Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.

Juliet klapte in haar handen. 'Heb jij eigenlijk ooit wel eens een bevel opgevolgd?' 'Het was een soort non-bevel en ik volg trouwens alleen bevelen op als ze redelijk zijn.' - Holly

These reasonings have no logical connection: I am richer than you; therefore I am your superior. I am more eloquent than you; therefore I am your superior. The true logical connection is rather this: I am richer than you; therefore my possessions must exceed yours. I am more eloquent than you; therefore my style must surpass yours. But you, after all, consist in neither property nor in style.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

In short, if we observe, we shall find that the animal man is pained by nothing so much as by that which is irrational; and, on the contrary, attracted to nothing so much as to that which is rational.

reflection will show that people are put off by nothing so much as what they think is unreasonable, and attracted to nothing more than what to them seems reasonable.

The soul of the ordinary man and woman is full of good will; but good sense, logical intelligence, is too rare.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

common sense is the enemy of romance

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum

Physicist Richard Feynman once said that analysis is how we try not to fool ourselves.129

But in recent years, whether because of growing strength or growing frustration with the lack of progress, the Left has upped the ante. A shift in tone, rhetoric, and logic has moved identity politics away from inclusion—which had always been the Left's watchword—toward exclusion and division.

I get rational when I panic.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

De toutes les définitions de l'homme la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.