All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.
Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.
From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist. . . is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. . . . Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!
The decision-makers should communicate the customer pictures and the logic of the strategies and actions. That communication allows employees throughout the organization to implement the strategies and actions, tweaking them appropriately in response to variations in the marketplace. It also allows employees to recognize information in the marketplace that contradicts the customer pictures, either because the pictures were not entirely correct or because customers have changed.
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.
Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Nothing falsifies history more than logic.