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...

I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they...

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

You can’t win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, —and have a wife at the same time...

We can’t avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don’t believe the fact or it is not a fact.

So how does one go about proving something like this? It’s not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is...

God’s existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart

Logic only gives man what he needs…Magic gives him what he wants.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic

Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient...

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

I am the Chosen One. I know, because I chose myself, myself. But to be fair, it’s not like there was another choice. It was either to be me, or not to be. And I...

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!

Two wrongs’ create an additional problem.’A wrong’ plus ‘A right’ creates a remorse.’Two rights’ create a solution.

Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren’t you really in agreement?

Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first.

{On the death of Hale’s esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank. Burbank was much beloved by the population unil in an interview he revealed that he was an atheist. After this, the public turned...

If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn’t wear suits.

Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I—a man in totally unconditional pursuit...

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

What we’re seeing is a trend toward moving the logic that used to reside at a corporate data center and getting it out to distributed data centers [and] remote offices. The idea is getting logic...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the intellect of an American audience. There was logic even in his laughter. He...