Syllogism ― Major premise: I can control my thoughts…

Major premise: Our feelings come from our thoughts, Conclusion? We can control our feelings by learning to change one thing, The way we think.

— Laine

“In a practical syllogism, the major premise is an opinion, while the minor premise deals with particular things, which are the province of perception.…

— Aristotle

“Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts…

— Gennaro Moccia

“I shall sit down,' replied the cat, sitting down, 'but I shall enter an objection with regard to your last. My speeches in no…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED global warming…

— Bill McKibben

“The Greeks think they justly honor players, because they worship the gods who demand plays; the Romans, on the other hand, do not suffer…

— Augustine of Hippo

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism:…

— Aristotle

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say,…

— John Stuart Mill

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

— Walter J. Phillips

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very…

— Bertrand Russell

“Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.”

— Eugène Ionesco

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Consider the famous syllogism “All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal.” So far, so good. But just because all…

— Carol Tavris

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

— Gore Vidal

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of…

— Francis Bacon