Logic Quotes - Page 29

• Logic will never change emotion or perception.

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Emotion, Never Change

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'". Interview with Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

  Ray Comfort

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• 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, Answers, Way

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• Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Art, Passion, Mathematical Equations

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.

  Bell Hooks

  Caring, Self, Lasts

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• What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Brain, Doe

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Silence, Speak

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 7 (1922)

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• Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

  Stephen King

  Fun, Littles, Nightmare

  "Alan Wake: gaming's greatest Stephen King story" by Matthew Byrd, www.denofgeek.com. December 21, 2017.

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• You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Political, Prejudice

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.387, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Two, Mind, Different

  "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 2, p. 97, 1953.

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• There can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Math, Surprise, Mathematics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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• For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Noses, Distinction, Democratic

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Finals, Socialism

  "Life Is Worth Living". TV Series (1952-1957); transcript was later published in Fulton J. Sheen "Life is Worth Living: First and Second Series" (Second Series, p. 122), 1953.

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• In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality.

  John Elder Robison

  Blow, Past, People

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• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Chess

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• The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Humorous, Men, Years

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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• The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

  Unknown

  Mind, World, Quran

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• Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

  David Brooks

  Art, Commitment, People

  David Brooks (2015). “The Road to Character”, p.109, Random House

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• Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

  Richard Serra

  Axes, Perception, Sculpture

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• You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

  Shane Claiborne

  Laughing, Details, Stories

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• Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

  Tryon Edwards

  Prejudice, Overcoming, Argument

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books

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