A theist can’t empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God’s existence. By his logic, you must believe in anything you can’t disprove. That means all...

When you say, ‘I don’t know,’ you cannot then draw a conclusion. That’s faulty logic.

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater...

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

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

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that...

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go...

Film is an emotional medium; it’s not a logical medium. It’s not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in...

Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.

I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can...

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Where logic reaches, religion leaves.

On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

I know that if you don’t look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won’t find one.

What do you think science is? There’s nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly...

How do you feel right now?” “I hurt like hell.””You’ll feel worse tomorrow.””So?””So, better get a jump on this while you still feel…not as bad.””What kind of logic is that?” I retorted.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did...

I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts.The first is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we areperfectly, completely, and necessarily sure of whatever we actually feel.The second is...

[She wasn’t] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him sound smarter, thought it made him sound like them, those code...

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God…. On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded...

The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm.[Pippin, The Two Towers]

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature–the qualities of space and time–in new...

i think i know what Philosophy really is , since knowing him is when you think .

I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is...

You don’t love someone because it’s the logical thing to do.

…but that was the thing about reality. It didn’t need to make sense.

Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘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.

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

God cautions us in Isaiah 55:9 that his ways are not ours and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts (undoubtedly one of the grander understatements).God is warning us that he is not logical and...

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you’re cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you’re cheating.

In short, this or that behavior wasn’t good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was...

There’s no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.