Logic Quotes - Page 9

• A wise man sees failure as progress.
  A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
  And loses his soul in the process.

  Canibus

  Wise, Rap, Divorce

  Song: Poet Laureate II, Album: Rip the Jacker, 2003

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• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pride, Reality, Order

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• If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Giving, Abuse, Argument

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3823, Library of Alexandria

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• I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Heart, Calling

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Political”

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• People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

  Mario Cuomo

  Simple, People, Political

  "The Quotable Politician". Book by William Whitman, p. 25, 2003.

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• Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

  Zell Miller

  Weather, September 11, Boeing

  "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.

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• Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Insightful, Meaning Of Life

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• In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

  Karen Russell

  Space, Insightful, Stories

  "Karen Russell on the Persistence of the Novelist". Interview with Brian Gresko, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mind, Stories, Humans

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.281, Vintage

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• Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

  Graham Swift

  Memories, Writing, Emotional

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• When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

  Gerry Spence

  Winning, Justice, Prejudice

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

  Robert Wright

  Sex, Understanding, Trying

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

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• You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Drawing, Reason, Form

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• Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

  Albert Camus

  Forever, Psychology, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

  Georg Cantor

  Mind, Myopia, Ontology

  "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.

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• If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

  Jean Piaget

  Tasks, Firsts, Form

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• The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

  Eban Goodstein

  Passion, Climate, Driven

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• Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always.

  Tamas Vasary

  Dream, Musical, Everyday

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• The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything they can to keep American viewers interested in what is going on at the hockey rink in Sochi. According to their logic, Americans should always win, no matter what. It was absolutely obvious that [Fyodor] Tyutin's goal yesterday should have been allowed. This was clear to the whole world except the American referee, American TV and those officials with American passports who rule international hockey, grossly neglecting all Olympic principles.

  Ivan Ilyin

  Country, Hockey, Winning

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• The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

  Oswald Spengler

  Giving, Wish, Life Is

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “The Hour of Decision, Part One: Germany and World-historical Evolution”

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• Common sense, however it tries,
  cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Common Sense, Trying, Common

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• Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Passion, Heart, Winning

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• There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

  David Schuller

  Funny, Lying, Rocks

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• But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  Tom Lehrer

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• [John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Light, Government

  Frederick Douglass' Lecture on John Brown, memory.loc.gov.

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