Logic Quotes

• We prefer to affirm civilization through logic and reason, not with the myopic, exclusionary bias and anti-intellectual fanaticism that have been the twin hallmarks of southern culture for going on parts of four centuries

  

  Chuck Thompson
  • Reason
  • Civilization
  • Affirm

• If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.

  

  Amanda Marcotte
  • Freedom
  • Logic
  • Rights

• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Political
  • Community

• Our emotions are PURE, our logic is KORRUPT.

  

  Capital Steez
  • Emotions
  • Logic
  • Pure

• Conclusions are a matter of extrapolated logic based on her best comprehension of the principles the universe has revealed to her.

  

  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Universe
  • Logic
  • Conclusions

• I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

  

  Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Thinking
  • Interest
  • Logic

• In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Money
  • Chance
  • Answers

• Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

  

  Augustus De Morgan
  • Care
  • Logic
  • Mathematicians

• 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

• 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

• Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It’s not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It’s not so much about what you lose; it’s about what you gain.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Smart
  • Commitment
  • Common Sense

• I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

  

  Jose Mujica
  • Live
  • Age
  • Sick

• 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

• The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.

  

  Ernst Zundel
  • Guilty
  • Revenge
  • Holocaust

• Logic is pointless.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Logic
  • Pointless

• The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can be unearthed and illuminated - on condition that I am listening - with my spirit, heart, eyes and guts on a single axis.

  

  Nina Menkes
  • World
  • Logic
  • Patterns

• Logic is a cruel tool to use for the mending of hearts.

  

  Natsuhiko Kyogoku
  • Heart
  • Logic
  • Tool

• There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and infer correctly.

  

  Alfred Tarski
  • Doubt
  • Logic
  • Importance

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

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Enemy
  • Chaos
  • Lord

• I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Logic

• The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Logic
  • Unrest

• Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

  

  Kate Green
  • Taken
  • Always
  • Chaos

• Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Believe
  • Logic
  • Relevant

• 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

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