Peter Abelard Quotes

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Not many people agree with what I do.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

I love to argue. I've always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. It may well be that I'm something of a shin kicker. It may well be that I'm something of a contrarian.