What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“Mathematics works only with computationally reducible systems. Axioms and deductive logic are intended to provide shortcuts, to give general results that can… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“There was only so much trouble you could get into before the threat of more trouble wasn't even a threat anymore. At… — Kim Garcia Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“{ On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank . Burbank was much beloved by the population unil… — Wilbur Hale Copy Share Image
After the revolution the borders were left open. Pens were free, expression was free, political parties were free. Even if these people… — Ayatollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
“And just how did you arrive at that remarkable conclusion, Mr. Mayor?" "In a rather simple way. It merely required the use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this earlier thinking as… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
In order to have a hope of creating better answers, we need to deeply understand the logic of the opposing answers. That… — Roger Martin Copy Share Image
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians,… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
“I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God… On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the… — Edward Royle Copy Share Image
“There were no footmarks.' 'Meaning that you saw none?' 'I assure you, sir, that there were none.' 'My good Hopkins, I have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power - if they examine the logic of State power… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
