915 Quotes About Logic

All deliberate change comes first from denying the logic that earlier gave you comfort.

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Roddenberry’s dreams, Star Trek’s dreams, help us to think through what it would be like to have a society of abundance, of logic and reason, and of inclusion.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expressions may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him.

Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

People always say things like Well I would, but... and that's where they fuck up. As soon as they give a reason for why they can't do something, they're already defeated.