I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“...and I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a… — Erin Bowman Copy Share Image
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Logic and reasoning help us solve problems, but too much blue during performance means we overthink and lack the drive to act… — Noel Brick Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat 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
A lot of mental suffering is caused by unrealistic conclusions we jump to. Use logic and reason to create a conclusion that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“Remaining open to the powers of conversation—to new evidence and better arguments—is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
“The argument was wilful, The alternatives untrue, We need no metaphysics To sanction what we do Or to muffle us in comfort… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Flames of outrage and reprisal had likewise made a comeback, his nearly forgotten, silent heritage no longer hidden by thirty years of… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
“Some decisions are carefully constructed towers of logic framed in lists of pros and cons, shingled in trusted advice. Ching, G. P..… — G.P. Ching Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I was in love, in lust, in something with him and all logic, all fact, all reality, none of that seemed to… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Just as we Liberal Democrats opposed the flawed logic of that war in Iraq - we will oppose the flawed government claim… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
