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“Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.”
“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.”
“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.”
“Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.”
Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Logical but not reasonable. Wasn't that the definition of a robot?”
Source: The Naked Sun
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
“Logical correctness or incorrectness is completely independent of the truth of the premises.”
“Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.”
“Logical love is no love.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid
having recourse to this mode of persuasion when addressing crowds, and the inability of their
arguments always surprises them”
Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon Gustave Le Bon
“Logical person + logical person = new perspective.”
Source: Quantraz
“Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.”
“Logical reasoning leads to scientific knowledge, but it can also lead to wisdom — and not only by clarifying first principles and overthrowing false assumptions, but also by perceiving the patterns in our personalities, in the covert qualities of our desires, in the inescapable continuum of our free wills’ pursuit of happiness and even in our supposedly irrational emotions, clearly revealing the beauty of life’s inherent rules and effectively eliminating the illusions we have ironically been relying upon to give us hope in the absence of a more profound perspective.”
“Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas, is reflected even in logic: an ideally rational progression of thought will finally bring you back to the point of departure where you return aware of the simplicity of genius, with a delightful sensation that you have embraced truth, while actually you have merely embraced your own self... anything you might term a deduction already exposes the flaw: logical development inexorably becomes an envelopment.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.”
“Logically, federalism, brought to its ultimate consequences, applied not only to the different places people inhabit but also to the various functions they perform in society, right to the commune, to whatever association, up to the individual, means the same thing as anarchy - free and sovereign units that associate for the common benefit.”
“Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.”
Source: Lone Wolf
“Logically, it makes sense. Unfortunately, I'm still pretty sure I'm missing something, because it feels like my Fate affinity is giggling at me.”
Source: Dungeon Life 3: An Isekai LitRPG
“Logically," Shallan said, "the bright side is the only side you can look on, because the other side is dark.”
Source: Oathbringer
“Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.”
“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God.... On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded himself as an atheist only in his inability to believe what the churches would have him believe. They were content to show that the Christian concept of the supernatural was meaningless, that the arguments in its favor were illogical, and that the mysteries of the universe, insofar as they were explicable, could be accounted for in material terms.”
“Logically, when Maestro Gott some years ago, after an especially cruel critic had compared him to "a zombie who causes acute depression to innocent radio listeners", decided to stop performing in protest, the situation was considered so grave that the Minister of Culture himself went to console the deeply insulted star.”
Source: The Czechs in a Nutshell
“Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy.
The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.”
Source: Be
“Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.”
“Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.”
“Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield, Essays, and Poems
“Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.”
“Logics bring flow to communication and illogics break the continuity.”
Source: Quantraz
“Logika adalah keadilan dan dialektika adalah kebijaksanaan”
“Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.”
Source: The Art of War
“Logistics is not an end unto itself, it's a means to an end. Logistics should be in service of something greater. In a permaculture system, logistics exists in service to people and families and businesses. Not the other way around.”
“Logistics management and supply chain management are just different ways of saying capital allocation.”
“Logo Value > Product Value”
Source: Quote: +/-
“LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs.”
“Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.”
“Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.”
“Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.”
“Logos (The Biblical Manuscripts/Canon of Scriptures) & Rhema (The Person/Life/Words/Death/Resurrection of Jesus Christ): The 'special' & 'ultimate' revelation of God. Without these revelations God would be unsearchable, unknowable, and inscrutable."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Lograr plasmar tus pensamientos, ideas y experiencias en un libro no te llenará de riquezas materiales, sino que te enriquecerá intelectualmente, sin mencionar que dejarás una huella imborrable para generaciones futuras.”
“Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.”
“Loin d’être ridicules ou pitoyables, ces héros, ces héroïnes oubliés {du 19e siècle} ont quelque chose de sublime qui manque au féminisme ou au socialisme d’aujourd’hui. Il ne ne faut pas les aimer malgré leurs erreurs ou leurs extravagances, mais pour ces erreurs et ces folies précisément, et pour cette leçon d’espérance qu’ils ont donnée à tous les opprimés du monde. Leurs utopies sont devenues, un siècle plus tard, nos réalités.”
Source: Pauline Roland ou Comment la liberté vint aux femmes
“Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.”
Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader
“Lois and Eloise and Benji have been cooking from the book all week in preparation, making everything from homemade marshmallows and chewy pates de fruit, to homemade Oreos and Better than Nutter Butters. Caramels, macarons, miniparfaits filled with apple compote and vanilla custard and olive oil cake. Insane little chocolate tarts. Shortbreads and chocolates and my personal favorite, the Chocolate Bouchan, essentially a cork-shaped brownie that is one of the most delicious things I have ever tasted.”
Source: Out to Lunch
“Lois Lane was part of the Superman dynamic from the very start. The intrepid star newspaper reporter had made her first appearance in 1938’s Action Comics #1, the same issue where Superman made his debut. She was infatuated with the powerful, godlike Superman, while repulsed by his meek pantywaist alter ego, her rival reporter Clark Kent. Lois’ 1940s persona of tough crusading reporter was in the mold of Hollywood dames like Rosalind Russell. Lois’ tireless effort to get her next headline, along with her impulsive personality, often put her in danger, from which Superman would have to rescue her. But the 40s Lois was no pushover. She was a modern career woman, and her dream was to get her greatest scoop: Superman’s secret identity.
The Superman/Lois Lane relationship had many complicated factors that would prevent a romance from ever reaching fruition, while still providing the right tension to sustain the relationship for decades. First off, they were literally from different worlds. Superman was the last survivor of the doomed planet Krypton, and was raised by simple midwestern farm folk. Lois Lane was very much a woman of 20th century America: emancipated, headstrong, and unwilling to take “no” for an answer.
Superman’s timid farm boy Clark Kent persona crumbled before Lois’ ferocious, emasculating temperament, while his heroic Man of Steel found himself constantly confounded by her impetuous nature. Meanwhile, the very issue of Superman’s secret identity always threw a wrench into his romance with Lois. Besides the basic duplicity, Superman becomes his own rival, squelching any chance for a healthy relationship. Superman loves Lois Lane, but tries to win her heart as meek Clark Kent, with the rationale that he wants to be sure Lois really loves him for himself, not for his glamorous superhuman persona. But since he’s created a wallflower persona that Lois will never find attractive, he sabotages any chance for love. Lois, for her part, is enamored with Superman, yet has a burning desire to discover his secret identity. Lois never considers that she risks losing Superman’s love if she learns his secret identity, or that the world may lose its champion and protector.
(...) If the Lois Lane of the ’40s owed much to the tough talking heroines of that decade’s screwball comedies, the Lois of the ’50s was defined by the medium of the new era—television.”
Source: Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines