Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. Votes: 4
Lord DunsanyLogic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. Votes: 4
Ludwig WittgensteinA mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Votes: 4
Rabindranath TagoreCommon sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic Votes: 3
Antoine ArnauldLogic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. Votes: 3
RajneeshLogic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. Votes: 3
Hermann WeylAll thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up. Votes: 3
John D. MacDonaldLogic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself Votes: 3
Otto WeiningerLogic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. Votes: 3
Ludwig WittgensteinLogic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic. Votes: 3
Pierre BoutrouxLogic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. Votes: 3
Walt WhitmanMy mind's screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground. Votes: 3
Maria V. SnyderLogic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed. Votes: 3
Osip MandelstamLogic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. Votes: 3
Frank HerbertLogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Votes: 3
Franz KafkaLogic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. Votes: 3
Ludwig WittgensteinLogic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. Votes: 3
Gregory BatesonLogic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality. Votes: 3
Avtarjeet Singh DhanjalLogic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want Votes: 3
Albert EinsteinYou can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens. Votes: 3
Mira GrantThe Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty Votes: 3
Michael MoorcockLogic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre. Votes: 3
Chris GalfordLogic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981. Votes: 3
Marvin MinskyLogic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. Votes: 3
Ludwig WittgensteinI just use Logic, so I need to get more keyboards and gear. I need to get my Korg. Votes: 3
Ryan HemsworthThe fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. Votes: 2
A. N. WilsonSome may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. Votes: 2
ConfuciusYou are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic. Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonAristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. Votes: 0
David BerlinskiPure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheSir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillIn life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. Votes: 0
Ludwig QuiddeWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. Votes: 0
Theodore WhiteWhats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. Votes: 0
Susan GeorgeAll beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position. Votes: 0
John AshberySummation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." Votes: 0
Hugh Redwald Trevor-RoperOppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. Votes: 0
Gloria SteinemMythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. Votes: 0
Penelope LivelyWe live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. Votes: 0
David RussellPoliteness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsAl-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic. Votes: 0
Jon StewartThe anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting. Votes: 0
Junot DiazBy the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. Votes: 0
David QuammenReason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality. Votes: 0
Dara ReidyrGrammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. Votes: 0
Richard Chenevix TrenchWomen do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareAfter all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic? Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThere's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Votes: 0
Alan CooperEvery man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieThe rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellBut love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic. Votes: 0
Lori FosterDon't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaMulticulturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide. Votes: 0
Rich LowryFar more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Votes: 0
Moss HartSometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. Votes: 0
Naveen Jainmost scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. Votes: 0
Ernst MayrArtists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Votes: 0
Sol LeWittIf you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinI'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them. Votes: 0
Denzel WashingtonYou can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonLove didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsSex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society. Votes: 0
Doug StanhopeYou have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. Votes: 0
Lloyd AlexanderLet him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth Votes: 0
John of SalisburyIt's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate. Votes: 0
Raymond LoewyI've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind. Votes: 0
Scott D. AnthonyThen you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me. Votes: 0
Patricia A. McKillipIf you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.] Votes: 0
Harry S. TrumanThe only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really. Votes: 0
Paul BettanyI would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion. Votes: 0
Unarine RamaruPeople want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. Votes: 0
Alice HoffmanOnly mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellIn contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness. Votes: 0
Lin YutangTo Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed. Votes: 0
Samael Aun WeorIn its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. Votes: 0
Will DurantMost of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Votes: 0
Edward de BonoThe less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaEvery Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace. Votes: 0
Rod SerlingIt seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiEither I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. Votes: 0
Philip K. DickYou reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. Votes: 0
Pierre BonnardBe reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. Votes: 0
Deng XiaopingMy heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace. Votes: 0
CJ RobertsDialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoAt first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic. Votes: 0
Emile DurkheimThe knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Votes: 0
Thomas Babington MacaulayDialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them. Votes: 0
Dennis HopperThe characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly. Votes: 0
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayThere's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going. Votes: 0
James PattersonBy your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussMy originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. Votes: 0
Odilon RedonThe logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. Votes: 0
Paul Ricoeur... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. Votes: 0
Robert GordisHere at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. Votes: 0
Stephen Cole KleeneWilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess. Votes: 0
William HartstonMy favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. Votes: 0
Mario TestinoExperience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. Votes: 0
Hilda DoolittleI tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. Votes: 0
Becca FitzpatrickIf language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. Votes: 0
Christian Friedrich HebbelThe very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. Votes: 0
Julian JaynesLove: the sickest of Ironyâs sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. Votes: 0
Christopher MooreKnowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. Votes: 0
Louis L'AmourI read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. Votes: 0
Stephen Cole KleeneI do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpIf i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic. Votes: 0
Cristian Peter Marinescu-IvanI enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win. Votes: 0
Michael Jai WhiteLanguage is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. Votes: 0
Claude Levi-StraussI love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadSome people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic. Votes: 0
David GemmellSome people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic. Votes: 0
Zaha HadidThere is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time. Votes: 0
Anthony Stafford BeerHumans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. Votes: 0
Roger SchankCould it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power? Votes: 0
Edgar Rice BurroughsThere are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. Votes: 0
Albert CamusBut however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. Votes: 0
Gabriel MarcelIf one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? Votes: 0
Sam HarrisIf I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. Votes: 0
Lady VioletWe can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay. Votes: 0
Gena ShowalterIt is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. Votes: 0
Gordon LivingstonMuch of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form Votes: 0
Anish KapoorMuch of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. Votes: 0
Anish KapoorI think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world. Votes: 0
Camille HenrotNo matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. Votes: 0
Bernard LonerganFaith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic. Votes: 0
Jim GaffiganWhen introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. Votes: 0
George PolyaThe logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it. Votes: 0
Charles EisensteinOh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsStory is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. Votes: 0
Jim TreleaseFear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerForever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Votes: 0
Albert CamusImplication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it. Votes: 0
Willard Van Orman QuineI am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. Votes: 0
James G. FrazerI think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic. Votes: 0
Hermann GoringYou need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonIt seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word. Votes: 0
Tom CruiseLife does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life. Votes: 0
Richard BachI just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it. Votes: 0
Daniel BryanIf the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die. Votes: 0
Bill AyersSomehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. Votes: 0
Grace HartiganScience is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Votes: 1 Thomas Huxley
My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy. Votes: 3 Nathan Fillion
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. Votes: 1 Ira Glass
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. Votes: 1 Maria Mitchell
Love: the sickest of Ironyâs sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. Votes: 3 Christopher Moore