Logical Quotes

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Love is many things none of them logical.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

The more you know, the more you see

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.