In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason… — Norman Geras Copy Share Image
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all… — Nancy Horan 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
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
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things? Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whereas reason is commonly viewed as the use of logic, or at least some system of rules to expand and improve our… — Hugo Mercier Copy Share Image
As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense,… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
These words that you have heard regarding women in the future Islamic government are all hostile propaganda. In the Islamic Republic women… — Ayatollah Khomeini 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
“Sabism is thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, bi-chromatic scale, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism… — Lepota Cosmo Copy Share Image
It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
