Logic Quotes - Page 20

• The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

  Frank Gehry

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Copying

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• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Definitions, Systematic

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• I think, therefore I laugh.

  John Allen Paulos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.2, Hill and Wang

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• Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Might

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.55, D. H. Lawrence

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• But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Heart, Ideas, Needs

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Mad, Driven

  "Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Soul, Events, Reason

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Different, Divinity

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• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

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• Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

  Stephen Colbert

  Kids, Discipline, Arbitrary

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• Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

  Julie Kagawa

  Wasteland, Dies

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• Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

  Bill Hicks

  Flags, Want, Helping

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• Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.

  Loretta Chase

  Simple, Men, Order

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• I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.

  Katie Hopkins

  Jealous, Sisterhood, Men

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• In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.

  A.J. Ayer

  Philosophy, Character, Enquiry

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• Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

  Greil Marcus

  Hearing Things, Wake Up, Want

  "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Irritation, Giving

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.121, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Mind, World

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• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Zach Wamp

  Money, Winning, People

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• Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

  Bernie Siegel

  Thanksgiving, Attitude, Life Changing

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• This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Men, Thinking

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• ... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Math, Thinking, Choices

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• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Math, Piano

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• I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Theory, Reasoning

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