Logical Quotes - Page 21

• It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.

  Keith Preston

  Meaningful, Political, Democracy

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• There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

  David Buss

  Agents, Influence, Economics

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• The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Law, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Firsts, Hinduism

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings.

  Joseph Story

  Philosophical, Exercise, Expression

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.322

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• Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, Way, Prosperity

  Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”

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• You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.

  Gillian Welch

  Song, Mysterious Things, Flavor

  "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.

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• The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

  John Carmack

  Hands, Years, Wind

  "Knee Deep in John Carmack". Interview with Billy "Wicked" Wilson, November 11, 2000.

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• The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Clarification, Objects

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

  Richard Ford

  Mind, Orderly

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• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Children, Stories, World

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• The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

  George Hamilton

  Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

  Howard Stern

  Mean, Air, Radio

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• If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

  Francis Crick

  Foundation, Doe, Good And Bad

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• It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

  Jose Carreras

  Pieces

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• So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Real, Book

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• The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Inquiry, Philosopher, Method

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• My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

  Brian Austin Green

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Office, Debt, Facts

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• As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Life, Fashion, Moving

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• It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

  Andreas Katsulas

  Wise, Decision, Would Be

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• We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

  Eleanor Brown

  Sister, Book, Order

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• They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

  Roger Hodgson

  Education, Cynical, Intellectual

  "Logical Song". Song by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, March 1979.

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• This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

  Georg Cantor

  Views, Ontology, Lasts

  "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.

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• I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, People, Perfect

  "The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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