Best logic & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.”

World Mind Firsts Form Order Three Numbers Type Logic Thirds Absolutes Infinite Independent Arise Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Reasoning Magnitude Ontology Finite Number

Author:Georg Cantor

“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.”

Trying Matter Play Beautiful Form Logic Stress Something New Edits Beautiful Music

Author:Stan Getz

“Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.”

People Form Ability Logic Stupidity Mystic

Author:David Gemmell

“If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.”

Ifs Mind Art Form Language Conscious Connections Logic Conscious Mind Volition

Author:Albert Einstein

“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.”

Needs Mind Persons Form Values Individual Known Roots Logic Missions Senses Primitive

Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values

“The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.”

States Form Speak Church Silence Authority Elements Logic Raised Architecture Multitudes Majesty Palaces Monument Church And State Cathedrals Dams Shady

Author:Georges Bataille

“There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.”

May Doe Form Politics Results Existence Economy Creation Development Logic Method Available Liberalism Strict Obtaining Purchasing Purchasing Power

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.”

Form Force Fashion Shapes Highest Logic Plant Mere Artistic Lapses Primeval

Author:Karl Blossfeldt

“The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.”

Important Facts Reality Form Differences Lines Known Logic Majority Guides Analysis Realism Mistaken Grammar Misled Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.”

Form Language Logic Logical Pictorial

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!”

“The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.”

Men Mind Humans Form Language Decision Destiny Illusion Logic Method Longing Certainty Logical Human Mind Repose Judicial

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.”

Ifs Art Shows Form Language Conscious Logic Meaningful

Author:Albert Einstein

“It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.”

Way Humans Form Strong Rights Logic Human Rights New Ways Bias Framework Organisation

Author:Judith Butler

“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”

Dream Form Wish Logic Math Fulfillment Reasoning Statistics

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.”

Ifs Want Form Logic Inverse

Book:The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

“Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.”

Said Sometimes Form Father Hours Willing Baby Mouths Angel Logic Fishes Bunch Substance Cute Crush Mixtures Penguins

Author:James Patterson

“Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”

Knows Needs Past Form Dangerous Depends Survival Logic Luck Blind Surprise Conservative Chess Conservatism Clinging Unprepared Playing Chess

Author:Frank Herbert

“It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.”

Way Wells Sometimes Hard Reason Form Knowledge Example Particular Expression Logic Best Way Limitation Reason Why Reasoning Precise Predictions Analogies

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.”

Knows Trying Heart Self Reason Truth Form Simple Ability Behinds Knowing Awareness Logic Essence Intuition Perceive Analysis Innate Ability To See Very Mean

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.”

“We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.”

“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.”

Knows Men Humans Reason Form Language Logic Internals Human Reason Human Language

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?”

Life Should Humans Self Form Suffering Nature Morality Demand Standards Logic Assuming Notion Including Aliens Assumption Ignored Conform Alien Life

Author:Steve Perry

“What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.”

“You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.”

Reason Form Logic Drawing Colour Severe

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.”

Mind Form Seeing Possibility Highest Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Infinity Ontology Myopia

Author:Georg Cantor

“If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.”

Ifs Firsts Form Tasks Logic Reasoning

Author:Jean Piaget

“Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.”

Kind Form Logic Mathematical Geometric Mathematical Logic

Author:Anish Kapoor

“The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking.”

“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.”

“So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.”

People World Giving Trying Doe Art Reason Form Goal Theory Demand Prove Unique Logic Scientist Math Lawyer Rational Crafts Testing Goosebumps

Author:Paul Lockhart

“In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.”

Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy

“I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.”

Action Form Beauty Figures Bears Shapes Logic Ugly Inward Elephants Toads

Book:Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

“My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.”

World Way Giving Real Together Jobs Form Interest Realizing Identity Logic Symbols Real World Abstraction Quirky

Author:Caio Fonseca

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