Logic Quotes

• It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

  

  Alva Noto
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Logic

• Alfarabi first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv, where he began to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yūḥannā Ibn Haylān.

  

  Al-Farabi
  • Logic
  • Studied

• Its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;

  

  Edward Feser
  • Information
  • Laws
  • Mathematics

• He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Logic

• I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • Thinking
  • Discipline
  • Latin

• The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Movie
  • Society

• The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Magic
  • Logic
  • Result

• I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Important
  • Logic

• Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Great
  • Society
  • Logic

• Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Logic

• Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Boys

• If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Die
  • Sorry
  • Sorrow

• 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Action
  • Lost

• You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Firsts
  • Use
  • Meditation

• A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • Scientist
  • Observation
  • Phenomenon

• I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Better

• I like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic and literary structures imposed by me, but at the same time, all the tracks are shaped and ordered in a much more improvisational manner. The guiding principle for me is whether or not a story adds a layer or texture to the overall collection.

  

  Daniel Olivas
  • Together
  • Creation
  • Jazz

• In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

  

  John Badham
  • Up
  • Power
  • Logic

• If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of things, the logic of things. That's why I don't get that much involved in politics directly.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • People
  • Strong
  • Opinion

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

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Logic

• I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic.

  

  Bishop Nehru
  • Emotional
  • Logic

• I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Logic

• The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

  

  Bernard DeVoto
  • Mind
  • Logic

• There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Path
  • Logic
  • Events

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