Quotes by category:Logic

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

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Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

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My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a... by Mario Testino

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Marquis de Custine

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...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Marshall McLuhan

logic photograph culture

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it... by Mark Twain

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

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Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated. by Mason Cooley

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

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I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

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Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

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Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. by Mason Cooley

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

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Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. by Max Lucado

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

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Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

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Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

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I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic... by Michael Jai White

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

Michael Jai White

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The Lords of Chaos are by Michael Moorcock

The Lords of Chaos are

Michael Moorcock

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Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Michelle Shocked

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Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. by Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Mikhail Botvinnik

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Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32) by Milan Kundera

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

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You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has... by Mira Grant

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

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The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Morris Raphael Cohen

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