Logic Quotes - Page 2

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.

Language disguises thought.

Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

If thou really believe in one God,
irrationality is subset of thou logic.

Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve."
"And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.

How very wet this water is.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!