Logical famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
-- Abraham Kaplan -
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
-- Albert Camus -
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
-- Albrecht Durer -
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
-- Alexis Korner -
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)
-- Amy Neftzger -
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
-- Anatol Rapoport -
Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have ...
-- Anne Morice -
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.
-- Beth Lisick -
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.
-- Carl Safina -
The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
-- Carl Sagan -
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.
-- Criss Jami -
I loved the idea that biology was logical.
-- Cynthia Kenyon -
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
-- Daniel Crevier -
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
-- David Brooks -
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
-- David Foster Wallace -
...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
-- David Rockefeller -
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
-- Dennis Lindley -
Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...
-- Doris Humphrey -
...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
-- Euripides -
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
-- Francis Collins -
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
-- Francis Crick -
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.
-- Franz Kafka -
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
-- George Hamilton -
Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle ...
-- George W. Merck -
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.
-- Gustave de Molinari -
There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
-- Henri Poincare -
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
-- Henry Flynt -
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
-- Isaac Asimov -
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
-- Jack Kingston -
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
-- Jean Piaget -
Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...
-- Jeff Lindsay -
It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.
-- Jose Carreras -
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.
-- Joseph M. Juran -
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical,
-- Junichiro Koizumi -
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
-- Kenzo Tange -
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
-- Kevin Spacey -
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
-- Kirk Cameron -
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true
-- Leonard Nimoy -
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
-- Lion Feuchtwanger -
Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.
-- Luci Swindoll -
You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.
-- Malik Zulu Shabazz -
I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.
-- Max Lucado -
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
-- Morris Raphael Cohen -
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
-- Niels Bohr -
You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.
-- P. C. Cast -
In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
-- Paul McCartney -
I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.
-- Richard Ford -
If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
-- Robert Ballard -
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
-- Robert Breault -
Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.
-- Robin S -
A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.
-- Satoshi Kanazawa -
Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.
-- Steve McConnell -
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
-- Steve Sailer -
impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.
-- Susan Moody -
In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.
-- Tadao Ando -
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.
-- Theobald Smith -
I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.
-- Thomas Jane -
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.
-- Tom DeMarco -
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world
-- Vannevar Bush -
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.
-- Ventseslav Konstantinov -
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
-- Victor Serge -
Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?
-- W. D. Richter -
Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
-- Wallace Stevens -
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
-- William Bernbach -
Love is many things none of them logical.
-- William Goldman -
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
-- William Ralph Inge -
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
-- Woody Allen -
If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.
-- Ali Shirazinia -
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
-- Dexter Fletcher -
Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.
-- Hans H Wellisch -
Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. -
You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.
-- Richard P. Rumelt -
I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.
-- Robert James Thomson -
Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.
-- Rose Quiello -
I tend to be a very logical, practical person.
-- Sharon Cameron -
Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.
-- Charlie Worsham
