Logic Quotes

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

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

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

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

The logic of the heart is absurd

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

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.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.

You have to play the logic of a character.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

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.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

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

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.