915 Quotes About Logic

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge.

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

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

Turn inward: If you're asking 'why', also ask why 'why'? If your power is to question, also question the questioner in you.

Listen to that inner voice of yours. It's not you, but it's for you.

The mindset is like an individual program having its logic.

A sense of logic causes an understanding to true sensitivity in a sensational sense, amuse the realm of celestial essence. Pleasantly speaking, it brings pleasure to see a fleshly man become a supreme god in He.