It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other. ' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.
Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
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.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.
Elementary propositions consist of names.
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. . . . The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.
I'm impervious to logic.
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
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?
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!