Quotes about logic
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Source: A Child Across the Sky
“But that's men all over… Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”
Source: Busman's Honeymoon
“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.”
Sudden Death (1983)
Variant: "If the World Made Sense, Men Would Ride Sidesaddle" was the title of a 1993 one-man comedy by Ed Navis, performed at Wings Theatre, New York.
Variant: If the world were a logical place, then men would ride side-saddle.
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”
Source: Nightfall
“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
As quoted in Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004) by Michael Guillen, Ch. 7 : Hope Springs Eternal, p. 90
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Variant: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“I want to rip off your logic
and make passionate sense to you.”
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
Source: Neuromancer (1984)
Context: A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
Source: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”
Glory Road (1963)
Context: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
“Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”
Source: Bone Crossed
Sam Harris, "Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? – William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-the-foundation-of-morality-natural-or-supernatural-the-craig-harris, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States – April 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&t=1m10s
2010s
“If This Goes On—” Chapter 10, p. 426
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Source: Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
Context: “Do you seriously expect to start a rebellion with picayune stuff like that?”
“It’s not picayune stuff, because it acts directly on their emotions, below the logical level. You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. It doesn’t have to be a prejudice about an important matter either.
Source: Night World, No. 3
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”
Variant: Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita
Source: Bullet
“I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
Source: Devil in Winter
Source: Empire Falls
“The heart knows no logic, and rarely corresponds with the brain.”
Source: Everlasting
“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”
Source: Practical Magic
“Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.”
Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
“In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.”
Source: Shadowspell
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
Source: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10
Context: Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.
Source: Heart of Darkness
“I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
John Wain "Ambiguous Gifts", in The Penguin New Writing no. 40 (1950); cited from John Lehmann and Roy Fuller (eds.) The Penguin New Writing 1940-1950: An Anthology (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) p. 492.
Criticism
“The New Carnivores”, in The Agni and the Ecstasy (London: Arktos, 2012), p. 100 https://books.google.it/books?id=fYjX7W6SCLMC&pg=PA100.
Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster, p. 22
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World
Notice sur les Titres et Travaux scientifiques de Pierre Duhem rédigée par lui-même lors de sa candidature à l'Académie des sciences (mai 1913), The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (1906)
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
happen
His attitude to miracles.
Article in Jewishjournal.com November 20, 2003
"A Note on Poetry," preface to The Rage for the Lost Penny: Five Young American Poets (New Directions, 1940) [p. 49]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972)
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 9
Out of Step (1985)
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)
Interview (30 October 1982) in Re/Search no. 8/9 (1984)
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 9 “A Moral Dilemma” (p. 140).
Interview by Brendan Maher http://www.gottfried-helnwein-interview.com/index.html, Start, Ireland, November 24, 2004
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Song lyrics, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)