LOGIC QUOTES IV

quotations about logic

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge.

MIKHAIL NAIMY

The Book of Mirdad


Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

I. WATTS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Illogical, Captain.

MR. SPOCK

practically every Star Trek episode ever


No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

BERNARD J. F. LONERGAN

Phenomenology and Logic


Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; and tyrants hate the truth.

I. I. KOZLOF

attributed, Day's Collacon


The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Orthodoxy

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The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

CHARLES ALEXANDER EASTMAN

The Soul of the Indian


Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters.

LORD BACON

attributed, Day's Collacon


As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

R. WHATELY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Contrariwise ... if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

LEWIS CARROLL

Through the Looking-glass

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

Critical and Historical Essays


Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

CARL LOTUS BECKER

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers


Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

The Modern Temper


What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Mrs. Dalloway

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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

BENJAMIN JOWETT

attributed, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett


Logic cripples and constrains; it forces one into narrow and mechanical modes of thought that cut one off from a vast range of superior thoughts, feelings and perceptions.

JOHN M. DOLAN

Inference and Imagination


Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

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