Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Logic, also, is founded upon suppositions to which nothing in the actual world corresponds,—for instance, on the supposition of the equality of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The right thing to do is doing whatever you think is the right. Because everything you do, people will not consider them… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
For most people their ideal life involves an intimate relationship with another person; one which often has a sexual basis. But there's… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not. For that would apparently… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information,… — Tarleton Gillespie Copy Share Image
“Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to… — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add… — Ravindra Shukla Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump… — Irwin Kula Copy Share Image
![“Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by… [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given…” quote by Eli Siegel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/676/eli-siegel-21460_bases_music-for-a-long-time-has-been-telling-w_1865345.jpg)
