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.

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness–cry and then walk–but what really...

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and...

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems—general and specific statements—can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It...

Don’t trust labels – trust logic.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

But…that doesn’t make any sense…!”It does if you’re a goat.

A man of logic is a man of sin.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Logic only tells us what’s there; it can’t really address what isn’t. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though...

We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these sound bites. If the sound bites are presented by a source...

Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.

There were no footmarks.”Meaning that you saw none?”I assure you, sir, that there were none.”My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying...

I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)

Some persons fancy that bias and counter-bias are favorable to the extraction of truth–that hot and partisan debate is the way to investigate. This is the theory of our atrocious legal procedure. But Logic puts...

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

[I]t’s not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It’s not enough to be logical. You have to be virtuous…[Y]our demeanor will carry your message, perhaps, even further than your words...

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

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

Wrong way to think about it. Don’t try to figure it out all at once.

It’s a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

There can never be surprises in logic.

What’s still missing is a tool or service that can migrate the Domino application logic. Domino still is an awesome rapid application development tool. There frankly is nothing (like it) on the market.

Selon Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari:[…]”C’est une véritable haine qui anime la logique, dans sa rivalité ou sa volonté de supplanter la philosophie. Elle tue le concept deux fois. Pourtant le concept renaît, parce qu’il...

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for a much more general stratagem that underlies almost all regulative processes or processes...

We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can’t leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can’t allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like...

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

Pops added,”you know, they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.””And if you do, you never get the results you expected,” (Katherine) replied.

A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science:’The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will...

Love now, not later. Also, love later.

Some philosophers can’t bear to say simple things, like “Suppose a dog bites a man.” They feel obliged instead to say, “Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t,” thereby demonstrating their...