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Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion.
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
It's awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.
Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
When you go to the darkest place, all reason and logic deserts you and you are very dependent on having good people around you.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
I have my own logic. I don't listen to anyone unless it's logical to me and not many people understand and appreciate my thinking.
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
I loved that outrageous, creative style of city ball. 'Logic is the death of art,' they taught me at Yale. Maybe in basketball, too.
Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.