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| Giljotin: Det första verksamma mediet mot mjäll. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| Logik är tankens anatomi. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| Om Kleopatras näsa hade varit kortare skulle hela världen ha haft ett annat utseende. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic | Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) |
| Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end | Leonard Nimoy (1931-) |
| The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) |
| Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. | Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) |
| I am beyond logic and rationality. | Imelda Marcos (1930-) |
| Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) |
| Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Logic is the anatomy of thought | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) |
| Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Logic is in the eye of the logician. | Gloria Steinem (1935-) |
| The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) |
| Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I am beyond logic and rationality. | Imelda Marcos (1930-) |
| Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel | Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) |
| Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic | Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) |
| Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. | Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) |
| Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero… | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought. | Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) |
| Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion. | Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) |
| Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Logikk er ordenes matematikk. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Vi henfaller lett til sjikane når logikken går oss imot. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |