History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you. . . a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.
Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.