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.

In Sumatra, someone wishes to receive a doctorate in prophecy. The master seer who administers his exam asks if he will fail or pass. the candidate replies that he will fail. … One can already...

It remains to mention some of the ways in which people have spoken misleadingly of logical form. One of the commonest of these is to talk of ‘the logical form’ of a statement; as if...

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

Whenever there’s something wrong with your writing, suspect that there’s something wrong with your thinking.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.””And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

Perhaps it’s the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from one end as it lies across the trail to the beetle’s burrow? Does...

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen’s voice whispered. She ignored it.

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

What I’d like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist–if any exists–of ‘A Scientific Man and the Bible’. By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How...

The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false; the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes...

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

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.

This is disappointing, as we believe the logic for combining the two businesses is compelling.

Turing attended Wittgenstein’s lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that Wittgenstein was pursuing which wanted to allow contradictions to exist in mathematical systems....