Logic Quotes - Page 8

• Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Emotional, Argument

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.32, Macmillan

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• They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Angel, Stuff

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• The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?

  Garry Kasparov

  Creativity, Unique, Two

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• I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Order, Magic

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• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Character, Years, Law

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• There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Adversity, Iron

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Believe, Fall, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Passion, Reality, Men

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Steps, Science Fiction

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• No daring is fatal.
  The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring,
  in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

  Rene Crevel

  Creating, Support, Daring

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Institutions

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

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• Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

  L. J. Smith

  People, Vampire, Succeed

  L. J. Smith (2014). “The Vampire Diaries: The Return & The Hunters Collection: The Return: Nightfall, The Return: Shadow Souls, The Return: Midnight, The Hunters: Phantom, The Hunters: Moonsong, The Hunters: Destiny Rising”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom.

  Tom Feeney

  God, Believe, Native American

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• Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

  Winston Churchill

  Innovation, Rationality

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.

  Charles Krauthammer

  America, Europe, Political

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• I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Appearance, Deceived

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• Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  May, Usual, Impossible

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• Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

  William of Ockham

  Witty

  William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.21, Hackett Publishing

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• Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

  Michael Hanlon

  Worry, Global Warming, Wells

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• Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on logic and facts that will address any problems without depriving us of liberty and personal choice. They do not want to sacrifice our way of life based on fears of an unproven theory. After all, the loss of liberty is a greater cause of alarm than global warming.

  Deneen Borelli

  Loss, Sacrifice, Choices

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• Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

  James Siegel

  Law, Belief, Immune

  James Siegel (2005). “Detour”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

  Sophocles

  Knowledge, Oedipus, Ontology

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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