Logic famous quotes

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Needs #Logic #Found

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
-- Alan Perlis

#Analysis #Logic #Cases

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.
-- Alban Berg

#Magic #Logic #Results

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
-- Albert Camus

#Impossible #Logic #Bitter

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

#Life #Passion #Logic

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
-- Albert Camus

#Forever #Psychology #Logic

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
-- Albert Camus

#Hands #Essentials #Logic

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
-- Albert Camus

#Acting #Nazism #Logic

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
-- Albert Camus

#Doe #Logic #Classic

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Majority #Logic #Reason

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Book #Reading #Logic

Chess is not only knowledge and logic
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess #Logic

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
-- Alexander Smith

#Logic #Pleasure #Footsteps

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
-- Alexis Carrel

#Men #Logic

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
-- Alfred Korzybski

#May #Facts #Logic

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Radicalism #Logic #Desperation

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mind #Religion #Logic

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
-- Anish Kapoor

#Logic #Kind #Form

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Priorities #Logic #Logical

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Ethics #Logic #Accomplished

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.
-- Anuj

#Differences #Philosopher #Logic

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Way #Logic

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Common #Logic #Crime

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Logic #Improvement #Century

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Care #Logic #Mathematics

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.
-- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#Thinking #Facts #Logic

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?
-- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

#Size #Logic #Limitless

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.
-- Ayn Rand

#Law #Negative #Logic

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Love #Logic #Cases

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

#Logic #Cold #Blind

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Logic #Architecture #Mathematics

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Heaven #Logic #Study

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Math #Men #Logic

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Heart #Mind #Logic

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Real #Decay #Logic

Our emotions are PURE, our logic is KORRUPT
-- Capital STEEZ

#Emotion #Logic

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
-- Carl Magnusson

#Design #Definitions #Logic

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Stories #Nudge #Logic

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
-- Charles Kettering

#May #Logic

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Ontology #Logic #Mathematics

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Math #Needs #Logic

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Heart #Logic

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Character #Law #Logic

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Logic #Language #Creation

There's always some kind of hidden logic.
-- Christian Lacroix

#Logic #Kind

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Weapons #Causes #Logic

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Logic #Forgotten #Claims

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Loyalty #Different #Logic

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Reality #Media #Logic

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
-- Christopher Nolan

#World #Logic #Film

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Delay #Firsts #Logic

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.
-- Claude Bernard

#Mind #Hearing #Logic

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Men #Logic #Language

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins...
-- Clement Greenberg

#Sacrifice #Rooms #Logic

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe
-- Clifford D. Simak

#Abhorrent #Welcome #Logic

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
-- Colin Maclaurin

#Purpose #Ontology #Logic

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
-- Criss Jami

#Perspective #Different #Logic

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.
-- Criss Jami

#Logic #Logical #Fallacy

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
-- Cynthia Ozick

#Lasts #Logic #Madness

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
-- Dalai Lama

#Buddhist #Logic #Abandoned

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
-- David Berlinski

#Lying #Logic #Mathematics

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
-- David Berlinski

#Graffiti #Legacy #Logic

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
-- David Deutsch

#Feelings #Cows #Logic

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
-- David Quammen

#Logic #Evolution #Cold

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
-- David Stove

#Foundation #Logic #Theory

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.
-- Dennis Hopper

#Hate #Love And Hate #Logic

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

#Opinion #Logic #Argument

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
-- Eban Goodstein

#Passion #Climate #Logic

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Brain #Statistics #Logic

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Math #Logic #Mathematics

Logic will never change emotion or perception.
-- Edward de Bono

#Perception #Emotion #Logic

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
-- Edward Young

#Poetry #Literature #Logic

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Women #Logic #Curse

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Truth #May #Logic

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Logic

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Prejudice #Logic #Used

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Logic #Humans #Vindictiveness

You have to play the logic of a character.
-- Emily Watson

#Character #Play #Logic

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.
-- Eric Temple Bell

#Opponents #Logic #Mathematics

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
-- Ernst Mayr

#Society #Logic #Study

Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
-- Eugene Ionesco

#Beautiful #Long #Logic

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
-- Eugene Wigner

#Ontology #Logic #Mysterious

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
-- Fay Weldon

#Doe #Causes #Logic

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
-- Felix Klein

#Ontology #Logic #Study

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
-- Francis Crick

#Math #Lazy #Logic

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.
-- Francois Guizot

#History #Logic

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.
-- Frank Herbert

#Encounters #Logic #Blame

Fear is the enemy of logic.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Fear #Enemy #Logic

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!
-- Frank Van Dun

#Learning #Way #Logic

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
-- Fred Hoyle

#Data #Statistics #Logic

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Noses #Logic #Distinction

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
-- Fulton J. Sheen

#Men #Finals #Logic

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Logic #Mathematics

I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.
-- Gaetano Pesce

#Real #Needs #Logic

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.
-- Gena Showalter

#Spy #Logic #Okay

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.
-- Gene Roddenberry

#World #Logic #Praying

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.
-- George Boole

#Desire #Looks #Logic

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic
-- George Henry Lewes

#Logic #Argument #Judgment

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Discovery #Literature #Logic

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.
-- Gordon Livingston

#Ideas #Firsts #Logic