Logic Quotes - Page 17

• She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Two, Feet

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.36, Random House

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• May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

  Pope John Paul II

  Death, Life And Love, Culture

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• O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

  Jeremy Bentham

  Math, Destiny, Pedants

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.145

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• When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Character, Pride, Vanity

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

  Diane Duane

  Sleep, Eye, Years

  Diane Duane (1983). “The wounded sky”, Star Trek

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• Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle, we have to do something that is beyond logic.

  Yehuda Berg

  Light, Want Something, Miracle

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Nov 05, 2012

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• Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

  Raymond Chandler

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "The Simple Art of Murder". Book by Raymond Chandler (Introduction), 1950.

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

  Rene Descartes

  Love, Dream, Ontology

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• Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Decision, Answers, May

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.351, Harvard University Press

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• All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Science, Ideas

  Bertrand Russell (2001). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.45, Psychology Press

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• The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

  Frank Gehry

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Copying

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• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Definitions, Systematic

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• The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

  Scott Belsky

  Achievement, Vision, Definitions

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

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• I think, therefore I laugh.

  John Allen Paulos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up”, p.2, Hill and Wang

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• Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Might

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.55, D. H. Lawrence

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• The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Greek, Fooled

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Heart, Ideas, Needs

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Mad, Driven

  "Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

  Alban Berg

  Magic, Results, Ecstasy

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• Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Thinking, Anecdotes

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• We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.

  Pope Francis

  Majority, Crumbling, Income

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.35, Orbis Books

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• We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

  Pope Francis

  Home, School, Giving

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• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Soul, Events, Reason

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Different, Divinity

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