Logic Quotes

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecte

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Logic Discrimination

Reason also is choice.

Reason also is choice.

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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Logic Heart Ethics

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be oppos

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Christopher Hitchens

Logic Reason September 11 Attacks Rationalisation Irrationality

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption t

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Logic Inspirational Philosophical

Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old

Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her niece of being illogical. For some time she could not be brought to understand what logic was, and when she grasped its true nature she was not so much angry as contemptuous. 'Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!' she exclaimed. 'How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?' Her nieces, educated young women, thought that she was pass

E. M. Forster, Aspects of the No

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Logic is like the sword

Logic is like the sword

Samuel Butler, Notebooks

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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

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[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, a

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Charles Dickens

God Heaven Logic Hearts Heads

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reas

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Thomas Jefferson

Logic Reason Democracy Citizenship Nations

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they disp

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Logic

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us an

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Logic Enemies Animal Rights Animal Eugenics

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken

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

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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

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Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments,

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Charles Caleb Colton

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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an el

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medic

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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

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