L Quotes
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“Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.”
“Logic is the ultimate Apex mindset of all species”
“Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Logic is to the common good what sophism is to evil.”
“Logic is what the devil likes most.”
Source: Josie and Jack: A Novel
“Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.”
“Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.”
Source: Logic: An Introductory Course
“Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.”
Source: The Hollow March
“Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. … in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask – and in how we pursue them – but not in the answers awaiting us.”
Source: The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
“Logic makes things work; empathy makes them matter.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.”
Source: An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method
“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: The Trial
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
“Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.”
“Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.”
Source: Lady chatterleys lover
“Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.”
Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
“Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.”
“Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.”
“Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.”
“Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.”
“Logic only took you so far. Sometimes the cure to the dark was to find another flame burning bright.”
Source: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
“Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”
“Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?”
“Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.”
“Logic, reason, and common sense are your best tools for synthesizing reality and understanding what to do about it. Be wary of relying on anything else. Unfortunately, numerous tests by psychologists show that the majority of people follow the lower-level path most of the time, which leads to inferior decisions without their realizing it. As Carl Jung put it, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” It’s even more important that decision making be evidence-based and logical when groups of people are working together. If it’s not, the process will inevitably be dominated by the most powerful rather than the most insightful participants, which is not only unfair but suboptimal. Successful organizations have cultures in which evidence-based decision making is the norm rather than the exception.”
Source: Principles: Life and Work
“Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.”
“Logic, Science, Social Science, Spirituality, and History are contexts of philosophy that measure and reflect its depth and breadth of vision; they represent its essence and nature.”
“Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.”
Source: Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms
“Logic stays true, wherever you may go,
So logic never tells you where you live.”
Source: Rationality: From AI to Zombies
“Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.”
Source: First Daughter
“Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.”
Source: Shooting Star
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.”
“Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.”
Source: Raven Calls
“Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape”
“Logic, when applied to people, fails miserably!”
Source: Reaching Towards His Unbounded Glory
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
“Logic will get you from point A to point B. Imagination and hard work will take you everywhere else.”
“Logic will never change emotion or perception.”
“Logic will polarise
Facts will fractionalize
And truth will galvanise
Get self realised, get #Mickeymized!”
“Logic will save you when nothing else will.”
Source: Legend
“Logic won't change an emotion but action will.”
“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”
“Logic would say, ‘pay it no mind’. Yet the heart would say, ‘to pay it no mind would be to pay too much’.”
“Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel