Causes Quote by Gregory Bateson

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

— Gregory Bateson

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

— James Branch Cabell

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct…

— Neil Armstrong

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

— Leonard Nimoy

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

— Bertrand Russell

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

— Joseph Joubert

Logic is what the way things are. Reasons are the twisted things we come up with in order to deal with it.

— Elias Atienza

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

— Jason Schwartzman