The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.
Logic is no answer to passion.
I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.
The Nazis played the same games against Jews that today’s left plays against 'Eurocentrism,' 'whiteness,' and 'logocentrism. ' When you hear a campus radical denounce 'white logic' or 'male logic,' she is standing on the shoulders of a Nazi who denounced 'Jewish logic' and the 'Hebrew disease'. . . The white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.
. . . this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.
I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.
I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.
It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.
If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.