Quotes About Logic

A heart that boils over with rage blisters the mind and scalds reason.

from John Hay's diary) "The President never appeared to better advantage in the world," Hay proudly noted in his diary. "Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

She thinks in a straight line," said Tsanko. "There are no detours in this woman.

We phungus never judge guilt or innocence, we judge evidence. The law isn't emotional, you know, it's cold and impersonal.

We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

The media industry's double standard of seeking to introduce digital devices and content into schools as powerful educational tools while disputing that children learn from or are changed by entertainment media: does not square with logic.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

In a politically correct university culture packed with too many spoiled rich kids complaining of micro-aggressions, parsing every word and statement for any hint it might give offense, no matter how convoluted the logic behind it, desperately needing to separate the world into victimizers and victims. People with so much time on their hands, and so few actual struggles, that the brush of a metaphoric butterfly wing would send them howling in outrage.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it. You invariably do.

Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision was simple. You get thirty dollars or you get nothing. With this logic you would take any positive amount.

Compartmentalize. Accept the Cartesian logic of two separate universes within one life. Accept the contradictory tug between familial responsibility and the illusion of freedom. Accept that – as Dumas said – the chains of marriage are heavy and, as such, they often need to be carried by several people. But never allow the two realms to meet – and never admit anything. Whereas you, Harry, confessed everything … didn't you?

Dolezal with the treatment of Caitlyn Jenner, she questioned whether if we 'accept transgender individuals' decision to change sexes, we should also accept transracial individuals' decisions to change races'. This argument did not go down well. In terms of logical consistency Tuvel had a very good point: if people should be allowed to self-identify why should that right stop at the borders of race and not at the borders of sex?

As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

you should start thinking about measurements as a multistep chain of thought. Inferences can be made from highly indirect observations.

Bertrand Russell once said, "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty. . . .

Douglas W. Hubbard

Attaching "produced at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT" to a ridiculous argument immediately makes it cogent to many. That's part of life, but let's not pretend that it's rationality.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Common sense needs to be more common.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Creation from something is more rational than creation from nothing.