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

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

A leaf cannot return to the bud- bluestar to fireheart and greystripe

To Americans, either/or means both.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that — using logic as a weapon.

As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it “fall in love”. Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the intellect of an American audience. There was logic even in his laughter. He...

I’m a logician. No matter how wrong I am, I can always convince myself I am right.

Logic argues that Microsoft will look to get with Yahoo. The only other player that’s looking over their shoulder is Barry Diller.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they’re much more liberating because you don’t really have to apply a very strict logic.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved,...

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Behind your reaction is a feeling that whatever is ‘true’ must be able to be expressed logically. Men, in particular, have a tendency to confuse correct logic with an accurate assessment of a situation. Be...

Being’ cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that...

Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things?Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply “there is a book.

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?

‘Questions don’t have to make sense,’ Vincent, said Miss Susan. ‘But answers do.’

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the...

When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That’s my logic.

Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy (‘love of wisdom’) is simply a tool depending on how one uses it,...

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

sometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from “logic” in reality.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation....

I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won’t take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I’ll make you take him for a driving lesson tomorrow.”Dad backed away...

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then we are never truly thinking, which means that logic and reason – the...

When I say “The good man gave his good dog a good meal,” I use “good” analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good...

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your...

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another world, nothing.Our fathers were intellectual serfs, and their fathers were slaves....

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design...

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and – in the unlikely event that she doesn’t fall into it – he will become a mystic or a madman… Which is probably the same...

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

[Rumsfield’s] reply included a complex formulation that would become inextricably associated with him: ‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are...

I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2...

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

I’m who i wasn’t yesterday and who i won’t be tomorrow.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.