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Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Michelle Shocked

Music

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

Ben Shahn

Logic

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Jason Schwartzman

Logic

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Jane Roberts

Logic

Words

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Hilary Putnam

Logic

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

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.