915 Quotes About Logic

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

a priori knowledge such as mathematics or logic is general, whereas all experience is particular.

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical happening rather than the illogical reason for something which may be of the unknown, hence, why the logical answer is illogical to the logical person.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.