Logic Quotes - Page 3

• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Insanity, Mind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

  Euripides

  Math, Reason, Terror

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  Samuel Butler

  Mistake, Common, Cases

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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• It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

  Christopher Lasch

  Loyalty, Different, Family Life

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• There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

  Edward Young

  Poetry, Literature, Mystery

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• Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Philosophy, Science, Confusion

  Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.12, Routledge

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• The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Art, Creating

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• Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Architecture, Formulas, Aesthetic

  "The House: Its Origins and Evolution".

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• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Numbers

  1970 Quoted in Life Magazine, 9 Jan.

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• Logic is no answer to passion.

  Herb Caen

  Passion, Answers

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• Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Law, Subjects, Conditions

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• Science is simply common sense at its best.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Math, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

  Theodore White

  Politics, Ends, Process

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• There's always some kind of hidden logic.

  Christian Lacroix

  Kind

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• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  Garrett Hardin

  Real, Agriculture, Discovery

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

  Maya Lin

  Math, Perfect, Architecture

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• Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Social Unrest, Civilization, Virtue

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.146, Routledge

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• Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

  Susan Sontag

  Guilt, Innocence, Victim

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Latin, Thinking, Discipline

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• Chess is not only knowledge and logic

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess

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• The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

  Noto

  Creativity, Matter, Artistic

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• You have to play the logic of a character.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Play

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Discovery, Literature, Century

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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• Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

  Charles Kettering

  May

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