Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn't say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.
I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
There's always some kind of hidden logic.