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

To Americans, either/or means both.

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

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.

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

If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard...

Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of...

She’s not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

All things can be achieved but not through all means, some means are not proper

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

I am a cuddly atheist… I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a silly notion… I am passionately concerned about the rise in pseudo-science; in beliefs...

Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.

Love is illogical, love had consequences–I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

Language disguises thought.

How very wet this water is.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

All true are not truthful.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

We don’t agree with their ends, but they are not madmen. They have a logic, we can understand it.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

My Lord Bacon, in his Novum Organum, discusses this point, and investigates with his habitual brilliance the various categories of evidence, and finds them all flawed. None conveys certainty, he decides, a conclusion which (one...

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the...

A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.

Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of...

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Life is only logical, and to think it’s a gift is depressing.

The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to...

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Don’t focus on the length of your speech focuses on logic in your speech.

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition,...

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies...

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the...

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural…Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

All people, whether Aspie or neuro-typical are predisposed by their society to make guesses, jump to conclusions and then seek to defend those conclusions, regardless of logic or changing circumstance. This is sloppy, illogical thinking...

Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives.

It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid – if we’re talking not about an internal...

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Many a person over the years has tried- both successfully and unsuccessfully, to get rid of their inner demons. Those who are successful are deemed artists, those who are not are call dreamers at best...

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he’d understood that he’d understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn’t sad at all, but now that he’d understood that he’d understood nothing he...

…you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.