Mike Cernovich Quotes

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

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

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

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

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

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

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

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.

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.

Knowledge consists in understanding the evidence that establishes the fact, not in the belief that it is a fact.