“When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker’s mouth is only that. It is… — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its… — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Analytic philosophy, that is to say, can very occasionally produce practically conclusive results of a negative kind. It can show in a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical happening rather than… — Nicholas A. McGirr Copy Share Image
If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying,… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Let no one rule your mind or body take special care your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man yet… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In public and in private life, it often happens that there is simply no time to collect the relevant facts or to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've always believed in numbers. In the equations and logic. That leads to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
“Logic becomes a loud voice when the wall of our past abuse begin to crack with awareness. But that's our adult speaking.… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“When students are taught to approach argument through inquiry, good things happen: they choose topics worthy of arguing, they gain ownership (through… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“[T]hough in all practical matters it is indispensable, either always or mostly, to follow custom, to do what is generally done, in… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“What you're doing is building a horrible kind of logic. People read what you write and they say, 'Yes, he is talking… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Over the years, we have been conditioned that certain communities need to be looked upon in a certain typical way. So I… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
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