Quotes by category:Logic

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

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The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you... by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

logic character

The will of man is by his reason swayed. by Izaak Walton

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

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Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. by J. G. Ballard

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

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There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

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Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition. by Jacques Hadamard

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

Jacques Hadamard

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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

myopic logic thinking

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

James Branch Cabell

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The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

James Clerk Maxwell

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I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitte... by James G. Frazer

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

James G. Frazer

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Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in virtually every industry that are profitable because they provide good jobs.

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Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws. by James Siegel

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

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There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you... by James Patterson

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

James Patterson

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It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

James Russell Lowell

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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! by Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

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It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

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

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Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? by Jason Schwartzman

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Jason Schwartzman

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