Logic Quotes - Page 38

• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Doctors, Blue

  "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters, www.bbc.com. May 24, 2010.

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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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• Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Leap, Conclusion

  Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag

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• There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, People, Fit

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.115, Random House

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• By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Progressive, Reason

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• You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Bad Ass, Bullshit

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• If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

  Robert Moss

  Running, Determination, Words Of Wisdom

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.122, New World Library

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• Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, "Why me?" and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness.

  Robert Scheid

  Life, Struggle, Learning

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Real, Lying

  "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Government, Ignorant Masses

  "Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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• We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Myopic, Term

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• Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• Somebody who should have been born
  is gone.
  
  Yes, woman, such logic will lead
  to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
  you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

  Anne Sexton

  Baby, Loss, Blood

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Common Sense, Quality, Levels

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.113, Indiana University Press

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• seizing the swift logic of a woman,
  Curse God and die.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Women, Curse, Seizing

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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• It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Giving, Surprise

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Climbing, Iron, Mind

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• Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

  Gottlob Frege

  Loss, Discovery, Serious

  "From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book edited by J. van Heijenoort, "Letter to Bertrand Russel" (1902), 1967.

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• Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.

  Jeanne Elium

  Running, Book, Night

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts

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• Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Patience, Patient, Eternal

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• I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Beautiful, Moving, Space

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• Though logic-choppers rule the town,
  And every man and maid and boy
  Has marked a distant object down,
  An aimless joy is a pure joy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Boys, Men, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Mind, Ordinary

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Religion, Today

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