All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And sometimes, it doesn't matter what anyone tells you to think or feel, your own mind and heart will decide for you… — Alexis Bass Copy Share Image
... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
We realised that it was important to embrace this popcorn logic, that it works, that it's funnier when you fire 20 rounds… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Richness and fat does need, In logic clever fine deeds, But paunches never do breed, Fine thoughts or sublime seeds. [45] - 2” — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style,… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Men are like a bungee cord, they stretch as far as they can, but always bounce back safely." "Yeah, but once in… — Michael Hornburg Copy Share Image
I had learned this lesson so many times before. It was the great inner truth that didn't require the support of logic.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't… — Herbert Copy Share Image
The moment we want to believe something,we suddenly see all the argument for it and become blind to argument against it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most… — David Pietrusza Copy Share Image
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Then it's settled," I said. "We'll do a dream conference call." That love and rapture faltered. "Wait. How is it settled? How… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image