Logic Quotes - Page 4

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

The more you know, the more you owe.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

The solution of every problem is another problem

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

The thought: A logical inquiry