“The argument was wilful, The alternatives untrue, We need no metaphysics To sanction what we do Or to muffle us in comfort… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“...and I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a… — Erin Bowman Copy Share Image
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful,… — David J. Kalupahana Copy Share Image
“Reason, then, goes to work only after it has been supplied with a suitable set of inputs, or premises. If reason is… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The… — William James Copy Share Image
Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics -… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
If you want others to accept your ideas, simply explaining the ideas behind logic and arguments isn't enough - you need to… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought, who have memories and imagination in their mind. If both don't exist, Then this… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
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