logic Quotes

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.