LOGIC QUOTES II

quotations about logic

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. WILSON

book review, The Guardian, Sep. 30, 1989


He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

MORRIS F. COHEN

An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method


Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

EUGENE IONESCO

Rhinoceros

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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

E. M. FORSTER

Aspects of the Novel

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An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).

SAM HARRIS

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

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The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

MAX FRISCH

Homo Faber: A Report

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But that's men all over.... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Busman's Honeymoon

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Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

IMMANUEL KANT

Lectures on Logic

Tags: Immanuel Kant, Aristotle


Logic is an enemy of wit and humor (Mr. Spock's face was always an impassive mask); logic makes us dull and pedantic (Mr. Spock always spoke in a monotone); logic presupposes a simple-minded, black-and-white, yes-no conception of the world.

JOHN M. DOLAN

Inference and Imagination


Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

NICOLA ABBAGNANO

attributed, Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization


All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Salmon of Doubt

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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.

RAYMOND F. JONES

The Non-Statistical Man


Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

LORD DUNSANY

"Weeds & Moss", My Ireland


Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

SAMUEL BUTLER

The Notebooks of Samuel Butler


Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

BRIGID LOWRY

Guitar Highway Rose


Logic helps you learn how to be precise and rigorous in any area of study.

GREG RESTALL

Logic: An Introduction


The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

ALEXANDER THEROUX

Darconville's Cat