Logic Quote by Ludwig von Mises Download Open image ““Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.”” — Ludwig von Mises ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Logic Reason
“Doctrines are statements designed to point us to God; they are not meant as objects of faith themselves.” — Donald Fairbairn Copy Share Image
“It is quite remarkable how firmly belief and conviction stand in the way of reasoning,” — Till Roenneberg Copy Share Image
“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack of intellectual… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I wish to propose a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“a skeptic's mantra is "extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence. In so far as belief professes to be founded on… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“All belief systems are elaborate fabrications, if logic is followed out to the end.” — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“There are no facts or uses of reason which are available outside of the interpretive system. The argument must pit the unbeliever's system of… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of… — David Oderberg Copy Share Image
If we were to expect the unexpected, then the unexpected would become expected, so we might as well say expect the expected, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers 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 to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image