Logic Quotes

• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Political
  • Community

• The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • Life
  • World
  • Reality

• Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Logic

• In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

  

  Simon Callow
  • People
  • School
  • Funny

• Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Prejudice

• The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

  

  Kate Green
  • Taken
  • Always
  • Chaos

• A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Men
  • Fit
  • Useless

• As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

  

  Michiko Kakutani
  • Writing
  • Vision
  • Philosophical

• A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Starting point
  • Ending point
  • Tautologies

• Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Logic
  • Arguments
  • Methods

• The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Enemy
  • Chaos
  • Lord

• The thing about villains is that villains always have their own logic, and they don't necessarily see themselves as villains. Richelieu is not a villain, in his own mind. He's doing what he needs to do.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Villains

• I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

  

  Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Thinking
  • Interest
  • Logic

• Our emotions are PURE, our logic is KORRUPT.

  

  Capital Steez
  • Emotions
  • Logic
  • Pure

• The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Book
  • Passion
  • Justice

• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Mind
  • Burden
  • Resentment

• Logic is pointless.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Logic
  • Pointless

• Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Logic
  • Candle
  • Ignores

• Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Crime
  • Logic

• The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Logic
  • Historian
  • Narrow

• We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic to it. But in fact, people do pick up on our subtle energy, and even if they can't see it or put it into words, they feel it and, subliminally, they know. They vote yes, no or maybe according to the qualities and strength of the energy we project.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Energy
  • Feels
  • Vote

• Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Moments
  • Challenges
  • Originality

• Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

  

  Cherise Sinclair
  • Weapons
  • Excellent
  • Employed

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