Logic Quotes - Page 10

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.

Why don't they teach logic at these schools?

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong about their facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.