Quotes by category:Logic

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

logic reason men

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

logic distinction noses

Life [had] replaced logic. by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life [had] replaced logic.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

replaced logic

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

modern common-sense logic

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Wa... by Gena Showalter

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

spy okay logic

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

Gene Roddenberry

logic god world

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.

logic desire looks

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

George Henry Lewes

argument judgment logic

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

logic language fields

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.

logic literature discovery

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be dec... by Gautama Buddha

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

buddhist logic appearance

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

logic mad men

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by lo... by Gordon Livingston

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

Gordon Livingston

logic ideas firsts

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

logic facts thinking

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world th... by Grace Hartigan

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

logic trying world

Logic has nothing to do with oppression. by Gloria Steinem

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

oppression logic

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justifi... by Gloria Steinem

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

oppression logic self

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. by Gregory Bateson

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Gregory Bateson

logic poor causes

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when... by Gregory Bateson

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Gregory Bateson

ignored paradox logic

A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

Guy Consolmagno

intuition logic looks

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