Logic Quotes

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

All propositions are of equal value.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

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

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

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.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

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

Life [had] replaced logic.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."

As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.