Logic Quotes · Page 35

“Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.”

— Haruki Murakami

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

— Twyla Tharp

To settle an argument , think of what is right not who is right .

— Anonymous

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

— Marian Anderson

It is a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

— Anonymous

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

— Herbert Simon

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

— Rajneesh

“I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all…

— Nick Hornby

For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For everything else, there is an explanation.

— Anonymous

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in…

— Maxim Gorky

When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words…

— Sarah Kay

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more…

— Gore Verbinski

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for…

— Edith Sitwell

Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by…

— George Carlin

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the…

— Ken Liu

In other philosophies, my questions would get answered to some degree, but then I would have a follow-up question and there would…

— Jenna Elfman

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to…

— John Edensor Littlewood

There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they…

— Ann Patchett

Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories…

— Cass Sunstein

“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the…

— Herman E. Kittredge

“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves…

— Hal Herzog

What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically…

— David Harvey

Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application;…

— John Selden

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

— Will Durant

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

— Peter Baynham

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

— Gertrude Stein

“Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute).”

— Maya Angelou

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

— Morris Kline

Rationality doesnt exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.

— Anonymous

“Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogical.”

— Navessa Allen

With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Don't tell us the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.

— Anonymous

My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

— CJ Roberts

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

— Gabriel Marcel

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

— Anonymous

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

— Benjamin Wittes

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

— Joseph de Maistre

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

— Noam Chomsky

“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison