Logical Quotes - Page 34

• Craziest thing I ever did for love? It's all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you're in love with someone. It doesn't make any logical sense. I guess that's why they call it being in love.

  Vince Vaughn

  Crazy, Being In Love, Doe

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, "If science can't do something therefore religion can.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Writing, Simple

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  War, Book, Finals

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Christian, Doors, Locks

  John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan

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• But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, Eternity, Justification

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Believe, Abiding

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

  Bill Johnson

  Mind, Looks, Impossible

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.192, Charisma Media

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• The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

  Sting

  Often Is, Safety, Choices

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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Gdp, Opera

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  Larry King

  Media, Years, People

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• But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

  David Hilbert

  Finite Number, Numbers, May

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• A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Thinking, Mind

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• A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.

  Roberto Orci

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, People, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Meaningful, Dream, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them.

  Bill Cosby

  Beautiful, Dad, Cutting

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  Ornette Coleman

  Kids, Thinking, Adults

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

  David Brenner

  Video, Location, Size

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• Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

  Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

  Actors, Scene, Spots

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.

  J Tillman

  Confused, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!

  David Deida

  Dancing, Connections, Culture

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• We have so many alternatives, like kenaf. It produces more crop, it's hardier, and creates incredible paper products. Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm inviting anyone else who thinks the same to reach out and get involved with our think tanks around creating tree free alternatives ASAP.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Thinking, Creating, Tree

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Scientists are usually nice, organized, logical people who are very cooperative. I always learn a lot of science while shooting science stories and it helps to be able to speak intelligently to a subject about his or her field of work, i.e., do your homework before the photography.

  Peter Menzel

  Photography, Nice, People

  "Interview with Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio". Interview with Philip Greenspun, www.photo.net. April 2007.

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• Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you're one or the other.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Theoretical Physics, Bird

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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