Logic Quotes - Page 13

• For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom.

  Tom Feeney

  God, Believe, Native American

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• Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

  Michael Hanlon

  Worry, Global Warming, Wells

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• In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on logic and facts that will address any problems without depriving us of liberty and personal choice. They do not want to sacrifice our way of life based on fears of an unproven theory. After all, the loss of liberty is a greater cause of alarm than global warming.

  Deneen Borelli

  Loss, Sacrifice, Choices

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• The solution of every problem is another problem

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, Problem, Reasoning

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• Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Imagination

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• Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Home, Learning, Dark

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 18, 2011

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• Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

  Zell Miller

  Weather, September 11, Boeing

  "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.

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• If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Giving, Abuse, Argument

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3823, Library of Alexandria

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• The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

  Joost Meerloo

  Lying, War, Emotional

  Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo (2015). “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing”, p.117, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A wise man sees failure as progress.
  A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
  And loses his soul in the process.

  Canibus

  Wise, Rap, Divorce

  Song: Poet Laureate II, Album: Rip the Jacker, 2003

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• Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

  Garry Kasparov

  Determination, Educational, Self

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• Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Self, Years

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• Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Government, Space

  "String Theories: We're Living In Cass Sunstein's World, Get Used To It" by Tom Siebert, www.mediapost.com. February 19, 2018.

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

  Michael Kinsley

  Marijuana, Law, Judging

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• Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.

  Paul Romer

  Wisdom, Numbers, Special

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• Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Insightful, Meaning Of Life

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• How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

  Sophocles

  Knowledge, Oedipus, Ontology

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

  L. J. Smith

  People, Vampire, Succeed

  L. J. Smith (2014). “The Vampire Diaries: The Return & The Hunters Collection: The Return: Nightfall, The Return: Shadow Souls, The Return: Midnight, The Hunters: Phantom, The Hunters: Moonsong, The Hunters: Destiny Rising”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

  Albert Camus

  Forever, Psychology, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Drawing, Reason, Form

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• Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always.

  Tamas Vasary

  Dream, Musical, Everyday

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• Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

  Robert Wright

  Sex, Understanding, Trying

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

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