Logic Quotes

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

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

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

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

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.