Logic Quotes - Page 39

• Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

  Roger Schank

  Stories, Humans

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• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Forgotten, Claims

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• 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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• 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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• I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

  Neil Armstrong

  Use, Deceived, Conclusion

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

  Alain de Botton

  Long, Alcohol, Needs

  Twitter post from Feb 06, 2014

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• The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

  John Lasseter

  Thinking, Genre Is, Shoes

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Iron, Enemy, Boots

  "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption

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• We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic to it. But in fact, people do pick up on our subtle energy, and even if they can't see it or put it into words, they feel it and, subliminally, they know. They vote yes, no or maybe according to the qualities and strength of the energy we project.

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Quality, Energy

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

  Grace Hopper

  Running, Moving, People

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• It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Exercise, Science, Discovery

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• The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

  Bob Samples

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Bob Samples (1976). “The metaphoric mind: a celebration of creative consciousness”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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