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.

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.