Logic Quotes

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

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

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

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

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

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.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

Our hearts do not need logic. They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend. Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

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

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

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

I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

There can never be surprises in logic.

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

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

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.