But still,” Ayumi said, “it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.””You may be right,” Aomame said, “But it’s too late to trade it in for another...

You have a visitor, my lord.” I frowned, “What?” “That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you.” I stood up, exasperated. “Why didn’t you say so?” Lacuna looked confused....

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Look up, always. Look back, never.

Đặt liên tiếp nhiều ý với nhau không phải là lý luận, nếu giữa những ý đó không có sự liên lạc chặt chẽ. Muốn làm thành một d y xích không phải cứ để...

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real...

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.)

In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?””…I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.””Well reasoned.

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with...

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

How is that . . .” Braith shook her head. She wouldn’t go from arguing with one idiot to arguing with three.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time...

To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic.

Reason will always be logical, Logic not always reasonable, For truth from reason derivable, And logic falsehood multipliable.

I’m fine,” Kate said. “In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better.””Bad deduction,” Jessie said. “If that were true, I’d be dating Harrison Ford by now.

Every logical statement is acceptable for any element of your body if that is not logical then every element of your body is just interrupting in order to avoid the misunderstanding

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of...

A : I know what you’re going to say, B.B : Yes, I’ve dreamed about this chat, A.

Love is many things, none of them logical.

How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo’s claim that the earth was not the center of...

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble....

It’s amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

There’s a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act.But maybe they never heard what...

Like the end, the myth of the beginning overlaps the cycle of birth and death, unfolding like a Möbius strip in ceaseless continuum, which is the paradox that sits above and beyond intellectual explanation in...

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody’s easiest course at school and our species would not have...

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

The word ‘proof’ should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences…. Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences…. So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that...

I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game. I cannot do so for this plain reason,...

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker...

If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard...

Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of...

She’s not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

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

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.