There’s more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

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.

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

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?

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.

It’s completely logical,” explained the Dodecahedron. “The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that’s all. Suppose you had something and added something to...

Time is logic.

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make...

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this astrological and superstitious Humour disarms men’s Hearts, it breaks their Courage, it makes...

Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas, is reflected even in logic: an ideally rational progression of thought will finally...

theology consists of formal reasoning about God.” This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation’s characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal—that is, deductive—logic.

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead...

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

In the end, he had to admit, he didn’t really understand her. He didn’t understand women. He didn’t understand men. He didn’t even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself...

The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can’t make sense of someone who’s so brand new to you.

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But virtue...

There’s always some kind of hidden logic.

Their love story: It’s when logic fell in love with paranoia and paranoia learned to love logic; logic grounded paranoia and paranoia turned up the heat because logic never knew where that heat would come...

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that’s a different problem.

One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a prayer before eating: God is kind, God is good, And we thank him...

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias...

Many people have said to me that I’m a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies.

Miracles define common sense.

[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore,...

it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they...

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe- which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one.

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons...

Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and...

Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy...

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

When I didn’t see a ghost, I knew I’d seen a ghost, because ghosts are invisible. This logic also lets me know when I’m in love.

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...