LOGIC QUOTES III

quotations about logic

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

ALFRED TARSKI

Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of the Deductive Sciences


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.

ISAAC TAYLOR

Elements of Thought; or, First Lessons in the Knowledge of the Mind


Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Flight to Arras

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It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

JOEL COEN

O Brother, Where Art Thou?


If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Culture and Value


Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever.

DAVID S. ODERBERG

"Predicate Logic and Bare Particulars", The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers


Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

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The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

H. L. MENCKEN

"Clinical Notes", The American Mercury, Jan. 1924

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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius

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So, though most of us can reason without a formal training in logic, study of logic is needed at least to learn how to discern correct reasoning from incorrect reasoning.

CHHANDA CHAKRABORTI

Logic: Informal, Symbolic & Inductive


Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

RITA MAE BROWN

Sudden Death

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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

FRANK HERBERT

Without Me Nothing

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Stray Birds

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No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

BERNARD J. F. LONERGAN

Phenomenology and Logic


Illogical, Captain.

MR. SPOCK

practically every Star Trek episode ever


But as for logic, that is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.

THOMAS FULLER

The Holy State and the Profane State

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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

NIELS BOHR

attributed, The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis


The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks

Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstein


But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Dialectic of Enlightenment

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