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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

  Aldous Huxley

  Majority, Reason, Teach

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Law, Facts

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• The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Experts, Pedants, Nonsense

  "Clinical Notes". "The American Mercury" Magazine, (p. 75), January 1924.

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• It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

  Noto

  Track, Choices, Decision

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• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Larry Elder

  Passion, Gun, Law

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• Contrariwise, 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wisdom, Mathematical Logic, Ghouls

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

  Bill Watterson

  Reality, Issues, Special

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Better to be without logic than without feeling.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Thinking, Feelings

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.895, Everyman's Library

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• The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

  Eva Figes

  Race, Glowing, Males

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• Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

  Jason Schwartzman

  Mean, Plus, Knows

  "Jason Schwartzman isn't 'Bored' one bit". www.today.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

  Paul Eldridge

  Trying, Shepherds, Reason

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2194

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• Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Mistake, Reality

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Oxygen, Logical Arguments

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• Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

  Jeff Lindsay

  People, Laughing, Whim

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.72, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Long, Abuse

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• The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discovery, Mathematical Logic, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Principles of Mathematics”, p.5, Routledge

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• Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Art, Hard Work, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.111, Indiana University Press

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• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

  Louis Althusser

  Real, Men, Rejection

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• In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Government, Iran

  Ruhollah Khomeini's speech on November 9, 1978, as quoted in "The Most Truthful Individual in Recent History" in "Iranshenasi", Volume XIV, No. 4, as translated by Farhad Mafie, Winter 2003.

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• Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland

  Saddam Hussein

  Past, Political, Shadow

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• Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

  John von Neumann

  Space, Achievement, Modern

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• The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Mind, Argument

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• The Lords of Chaos are
  the enemies of Logic,
  the jugglers of Truth,
  the molders of Beauty

  Michael Moorcock

  Enemy, Chaos, Lord

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• The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Sight, Saint

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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