I’m a logician. No matter how wrong I am, I can always convince myself I am right.

Logic argues that Microsoft will look to get with Yahoo. The only other player that’s looking over their shoulder is Barry Diller.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they’re much more liberating because you don’t really have to apply a very strict logic.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved,...

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Behind your reaction is a feeling that whatever is ‘true’ must be able to be expressed logically. Men, in particular, have a tendency to confuse correct logic with an accurate assessment of a situation. Be...

Being’ cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that...

Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things?Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply “there is a book.

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?

‘Questions don’t have to make sense,’ Vincent, said Miss Susan. ‘But answers do.’

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the...

When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That’s my logic.

Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy (‘love of wisdom’) is simply a tool depending on how one uses it,...

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

sometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from “logic” in reality.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation....

I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won’t take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I’ll make you take him for a driving lesson tomorrow.”Dad backed away...

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then we are never truly thinking, which means that logic and reason – the...

When I say “The good man gave his good dog a good meal,” I use “good” analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good...

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your...

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another world, nothing.Our fathers were intellectual serfs, and their fathers were slaves....

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design...

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and – in the unlikely event that she doesn’t fall into it – he will become a mystic or a madman… Which is probably the same...

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

[Rumsfield’s] reply included a complex formulation that would become inextricably associated with him: ‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are...

I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2...

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

I’m who i wasn’t yesterday and who i won’t be tomorrow.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

It’s completely logical,” explained the Dodecahedron. “The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that’s all. Suppose you had something and added something to...

Time is logic.

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make...

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this astrological and superstitious Humour disarms men’s Hearts, it breaks their Courage, it makes...

Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas, is reflected even in logic: an ideally rational progression of thought will finally...

theology consists of formal reasoning about God.” This is admirably exact. Theologians, beginning with a wished-for creation of their own minds, analyze that creation’s characteristics by rigorous application of the principles of formal—that is, deductive—logic.

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead...

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

In the end, he had to admit, he didn’t really understand her. He didn’t understand women. He didn’t understand men. He didn’t even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself...

The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can’t make sense of someone who’s so brand new to you.