Logic Quotes

The heart knows no logic, and rarely corresponds with the brain.

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

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.

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

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

Politics is about realities, not logic.

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

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

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

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

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

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

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.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

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

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

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

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

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

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

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

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

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

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.