“If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?" "You may be all-powerful, but… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
If you want others to accept your ideas, simply explaining the ideas behind logic and arguments isn't enough - you need to… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
“I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots… — David Almond Copy Share Image