Logical Quotes - Page 28

• 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.

  Eva Figes

  Race, Glowing, Males

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• I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.

  J Tillman

  Confused, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Meaningful, Dream, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops...when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living.

  T. H. White

  Hate, Years, Law

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

  Jim Butcher

  People, Psychology, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

  Haruki Murakami

  Two, People, Missing

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• You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

  Isaac Asimov

  Want, Reason, Prove

  Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

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• The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them.

  Bill Cosby

  Beautiful, Dad, Cutting

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  Ornette Coleman

  Kids, Thinking, Adults

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

  David Brenner

  Video, Location, Size

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• Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

  Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

  Actors, Scene, Spots

  Source: collider.com

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• The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

  Robert Morley

  Country, People, France

  1974 A MusingMorley,'France and the French'.

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• Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

  David Hilbert

  Simple, Small Numbers, Principles

  David Hilbert (1910). “The Foundations of Geometry”

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• The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Thinking, Connections, Watches

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• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

  William John Locke

  Mind, Logic, True Happiness

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know.

  Amy Neftzger

  Animal, Leopards, Knows

  "The Orphanage of Miracles". Book by Amy Neftzger, 2013.

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• In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Gay, Individual Choice, Two

  "Pandora and Polygamy". jewishworldreview.com. March 17, 2006.

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• In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

  Paul McCartney

  Our World, Way, Aspect

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

  Albert Camus

  Secret, Everyday, Cases

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• If you can engage the influencer’s passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.

  Tom Webster

  Passion, Heart, Mind

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• If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

  David Stove

  Foundation, Logic, Theory

  "The Rationality of Induction". Book by David Stove, Oxford: Clarendon, p. 176, 1986.

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• A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through monogeny and polygeny, phrenology , recapitulation, and hereditarian IQ theory. He stops at each point to illustrate both the logical inconsistencies of the theories and the prejudicially motivated, albeit unintentional, misuse of data in each case.... A major addition to the scientific literature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Data, Racism

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• BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you've no clue, because it's almost become math. And it's odd that if you don't do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get 'homespun' attached to it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Math, Way

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• The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Construction, Entity, Maxims

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.234, Bertrand Russell

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• Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Logic, Process

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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