184 quotes found
“Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”
“[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.”
“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”
“Truth as a logic structure is closer to simple and the further away from simple you get, the deeper and more nuanced an explanation will become until you reach a point where the energy is so high t...”
“You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.”
“His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.”
“The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not.”
“For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its struc...”
“You can need someone you don't love.You can't love someone you don't need.Consequently,You can be with someone you don't love because you need the person.But you can't be with someone you don't nee...”
“Theres a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail willtake the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.”
“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”
“Occam's Razor is a term plagiarized by the fact it is not easy to find its source and meaning. My attempts to find an author lead me nowhere, and I can only find unsatisfactory descriptions of how ...”
“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 unshaka...”
“When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.”
“Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.”
“Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run ”
“There can never be surprises in logic.”
“Logic will save you when nothing else will.”
“Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.”
“You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.”
