Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point,… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
“My feeling is that the concept of superrationality is one whose truth will come to dominate among intelligent beings in the universe… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch… — Alfred Pennyworth Copy Share Image
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If… — William Powell Copy Share Image
A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect. Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
Obviously, deep down, I want people to enjoy my music, but the only people I want to enjoy my music are the… — Logic Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
I have my own logic. I don't listen to anyone unless it's logical to me and not many people understand and appreciate… — Tejaswi Madivada Copy Share Image
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by… — George Will Copy Share Image
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
