Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2016
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Post #1420
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
—Lord Kames
—Lord Kames
Monday, August 26, 2013
Post #1326
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
—Thomas Huxley
—Thomas Huxley
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Post #1293
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
—José Ortega y Gasset
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Post #1224
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
—George Orwell
—George Orwell
Friday, August 19, 2011
Post #685
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
—James McNeill Whistler, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878
—James McNeill Whistler, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878
Friday, April 09, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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